Palestinians fired mortars at the Kfar Darom settlement in the Gaza Strip and at Nir Am, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza border. The renewed mortar fire came despite two Israeli incursions this week into Palestinian-controlled areas of Gaza, aimed at stopping such attacks.
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