GAZA CITY - Five Palestinians were wounded and another five detained in northern Gaza after Israeli tanks and troops moved across the border. “IDF (Israel Defence Force) soldiers surrounded a house in which five wanted terrorists were located. After exchanges of fire, one Hamas gunmen was hit and all the wanted Palestinians were taken for investigation,” a spokesman said.Three of the five wounded belonged to Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades military wing, Palestinian sources said. An Israeli soldier was also lightly injured by shrapnel from an anti-tank missile and treated at the scene, the army said.
Wedged into tanks and armoured vehicles, soldiers moved up to 600 metres (yards) into Palestinian territory between the Karni and Nahal Oz crossings that separate Israel from Gaza, security sources and witnesses said. Troops were bulldozing land and shooting could be heard, the sources said, in an operation that came after two overnight Israeli air strikes.