GAZA (PIC)– Four Israeli settlers in the coastal city of Askalan occupied in 1948 were wounded on Tuesday when two Palestinian locally made missiles slammed into south of the city Hebrew radio reported.
The broadcast quoted police sources as saying that the four were hospitalized after the blast. The city to the north of the Gaza Strip groups a number of vital and strategic installations.
The radio in an earlier report said that IOF troops arrested 18 Palestinians overnight Monday and early Tuesday in a number of West Bank areas.
In an unrelated development a member in the Quds Brigades the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement last night died in the explosion of a device he was making.
Sources in the armed wing said that Mohammed Al-Liddawi 24 was carried to hospital after the device blew up in the vicinity of his home west of Nusseirat refugee camp but died three hours after the incident.
