The military wing of Hamas, along with other groups, have fired over 50 rockets and mortars into Israel in response to the killing fo two of it's members earlier in the week by an Israeli airstrike.
The Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades said that it's units carried out most of the attacks and that they were directed against four Israeli military bases located on the border. In a statement the group said it's forces fired at least 33 shells in co-ordinated attacks along the Israeli-Gaza border. According to Israeli sources, two soldiers were wounded by shrapnel.
Hamas said that the attacks were a direct response to recent Israeli airstrikes which killed two of their members.
Hamas rarely carries out such attacks although other groups such as Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) continue to fire rockets into Israel.
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