A senior Islamic Jihad leader and six other people were wounded in an Israeli assassination attempt in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah last night. “Mohammed Sheikh Al-Khalil was hit by shrapnel when an Israeli helicopter fired a rocket at his house in the Rafah refugee camp,” said a Jihad official. Earlier Israeli forces closed Gaza Strip’s main roads at several points and shut its border with Egypt hours after Palestinians fired a fresh round of crude rockets at an Israeli town, causing alarm but no injuries. The Israeli Army also demolished 13 Palestinian houses during an incursion in the southern town of Rafah. The houses were home to 118 people who were all evacuated before the army bulldozers razed the buildings, flanked by tanks and with an assault helicopter flying overhead. Full Story
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