Five Israeli soldiers were wounded when Palestinians bombed an Israeli fort in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Al-Aksa Brigade claimed joint responsibility for Sunday night’s attack, in which a fortified army compound in Gaza was blown up, apparently by terrorists who dug a tunnel underneath it and stuffed it with explosives.
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