The IDF opened tank and aircraft fire in response to the sniper shots, killing the commander of the Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades' observation unit, Taysr Asmiri. Several others were wounded. The Israeli army sources say that the sniper was affiliated with Hamas.
Security incidents have intensified along the Gaza border in the last week. Last Friday night, the Israel Air Force attacked a Hamas installation in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was launched from the coastal enclave into Israel earlier that day.
That was the first Israeli attack in Gaza since the war between the Strip and Israel this summer, dubbed Operation Protective Edge by the Israel military.
Hamas issued a statement on Saturday warning Israel against further attacks in the Gaza Strip, terming Friday's air strike a "stupid act," and a serious escalation and breach of the calm between the Palestinian factions and Israel.
Hamas called on the international community to act against Israel to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people.
[haaretz.com]
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Radical Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas said Wednesday that Israel was "playing with fire" and warned that the movement had the right to "protect its people" in response to an attack by Israeli forces...
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Earlier in the day, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that IDF and the country's ground forces "responded immediately" to a Palestinian sniper attack on IDF in southern Gaza Strip.................http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20141224/1016183795.html
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