Palestinian militants on Tuesday fired three Qassam rockets at Israel, one of which slammed directly into a home in the southern town of Sderot causing a number of residents to suffer shock.
The rocket caused property damage to the Sderot home. Another rocket struck an open area and caused a fire, according to Army Radio.
A further Qassam rocket hit Ashkelon's industrial district on Tuesday afternoon. There were no reports of casualties or property damage.
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Early Wednesday, IDF troops arrested three Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, after a explosive device had been hurled at them in the city earlier that evening.
In a seperate raid, IDF troops arrested 5 Palestinians in Hebron.
On Monday, Gaza militants fired eight rockets at Israel one of which lightly wounded a four-year-old boy was lightly wounded in a western Negev kibbutz.
The boy was hurt by shrapnel from the rocket, which had been launched by Palestinian militants in northern Gaza. The Qassam struck in Kibbutz Gevim, close to the rocket-weary town of Sderot. He was treated on the scene by Magen David Adom emergency services.
Late Monday night, The IDF on Monday evening killed three Palestinian gunmen a few hundred meters away from the security fence between Gaza and Israel, close to the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya.
The IDF said the Palestinian militants were trying to infiltrate into Israel.
Earlier Monday, IDF troops killed two Palestinians in two separate strikes across the Gaza Strip.
Israel opens Gaza crossing for humanitarian aid
Meanwhile, Israel on Tuesday reopened the Sufa and Erez crossings into the Gaza Strip, allowing some 60 trucks to enter with humanitarian cargo.
The crossing at Sufa had been closed since last Thursday, following an attempted terror attack on Kerem Shalom Crossing south of it. Kerem Shalom, where a terror attack was successfully carried out last Saturday, will apparently be reopened later this week.
Erez Crossing in the northern Gaza Strip was closed early this week because of a terror alert there, and reopened on Tuesday.
Last week the supply of diesel fuel was resumed through the Nahal Oz depot, where two Israeli civilians were murdered by terrorists two weeks ago. The fuel is intended exclusively for operating Gaza's power station.
A defense official said that the crossings were reopened to prevent Hamas generating a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and blaming it on Israel.
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