Israel Israeli jets strike Gaza after soldiers injured by Gaza bomb Eighteen Hamas positions targeted, says Israel’s military, after IED explosion on border left four troops injured, two of them severely Israeli soldiers near the border fence with the southern Gaza Strip. In response Israel’s army said it attacked “18 terror targets belonging to the Hamas terror organisation” in two waves of air strikes. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said at a security conference in Munich that the Gaza border incident was “very serious” and pledged to “respond appropriately”. The Israeli army responds automatically to any strikes on its territory, generally targeting Hamas facilities. Israeli aircraft hit Hamas targets in the southern Gaza Strip repeatedly in early February, after it said Palestinians there fired a rocket into the Jewish state.

Source: The Guardian February 17, 2018 18:57 UTC