NAZARETH (PIC)– Hebrew media sources revealed that two of the sophisticated IOF Mirkava tanks and large amounts of munitions were found abandoned near the boundaries of Gaza Strip.
According to the Hebrew Ma’ariv newspaper that revealed the news in its Thursday edition the Israeli military institution was very anxious over the incident and described it as “very serious” as fate of the two tanks’ crew remained unknown.
Yet the paper added the army opened an investigation to know the whereabouts of the crew.
Earlier Israeli military sources alleged that the Hamas shelling of IOF troops’ positions and Israeli settlements adjacent to the Strip on Tuesday was meant to divert the attention of those troops in a bid to cover Hamas’ plan to kidnap more IOF servicemen.
On the resistance level Palestinian fighters from the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades the armed wing of the PRC took the credit for firing two upgraded homemade Nasser-3 missiles at the Israeli kibbutz of Kufr Ra’eem east of Gaza Strip.
For its part the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades the armed wing of the PFLP announced it detonated 25 kg bomb in an Israeli patrol south of Qalqilia city and exploded another bomb in an IOF patrol along the Atara-Bir Zeit road.
The group also took the credit for shelling the Israeli Kissufim crossing point east of Gaza Strip with two homemade Somod rockets.
In Al-Khalil city Palestinian youths hurled a Molotov bomb at an Israeli settlers’ car driving the Beit Amer road north of the city but no casualties were reported in the incident according to Hebrew sources.
The sources also added that a large number of IOF troops rushed to the scene and combed the area in a bid to capture the assailants but no arrests were made.
