Israeli aircraft fired on militant targets in Gaza City in predawn airstrikes Sunday, hours after Palestinian gunmen breached Israel’s heavily fortified Gaza border and tried to capture an Israeli soldier. Fighting between rival Palestinian militant groups, meanwhile, spread in the southern
Gaza Strip, further weakening a shaky truce forged in the face of punishing Israeli air assaults. The attack on the frontier post Saturday was the first incursion into Israel from Gaza since militants killed two soldiers and seized a third nearly a year ago. The captured soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, remains missing. Full Story
