(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon - After a Palestinian sniper fired at a tractor in Kibbutz Nir Oz close to the Gaza border fence on Thursday and IDF soldiers evacuated the driver to safety, Palestinians operating from within a school then detonated a bomb near the soldiers, the IDF Spokesman's Office said. Terrorists also fired a mortar shell at the force. In a separate incident, while Israeli civilian firefighters were extinguishing a fire adjacent to the Gaza security fence, terrorists opened fire at soldiers present. The soldiers returned tank fire, wounding two Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency.
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