The IAF struck a building that served as cover for a weapons warehouse, the army said late Friday. There were no initial reports of Palestinian casualties in the strike. The IDF warned residents to leave the area in advance. Earlier on Friday, IDF forces killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun who had come to the area to collect launchers used to fire rockets over the past week, the army said. Palestinian security officials, however, said the two were killed when the army carried out an airstrike on a car.
Meanwhile, IDF troops in Hebron shot and wounded a Palestinian man who was aiming a weapon at the soldiers on Friday. No IDF injuries were reported. The incidents occurred shortly before a full closure on the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria was to go into effect Friday afternoon and continue until after Yom Kippur. Defense Minister Amir Peretz called for the closure after he was informed that the security establishment was aware of 17 specific terror attacks being planned against Israel.