By KUNA,
Gaza : Palestinian gunners fired a couple of mortar shells from northern Gaza into southern Israel early on Tuesday, in the first reported violation of a freshly-mediated truce.
— A spokesman of the Israeli Army told Israel Radio the two shells targeted the southern region of Negev, noting that the attack constituted the first violation of the truce, declared last Thursday.
The two shells, upon impact, caused no losses.
The Israeli Army, meanwhile, reported that Israeli troops killed, at dawn, two Palestinian gunmen during “a special operation” in the town of Nablus in the north of the West Bank.
The Israeli daily newspaper, “Haaretz” quoted a military spokesman as saying that the soldiers killed a leader of Islamic Jihad during the operation, in addition to an activist from the other Islamic Palestinian organization, Hamas.
The two activists were shot dead when the soldiers burst into a house near Al-Najah University in Nablus. Explosives and ammunition were found in the house.
The spokesman said one of the slain activists was Tareq Abu Ghali of the military wing of Islamic Jihad, wanted by the Israeli authorities for involvement in attacks.
Israeli leaders say that the truce, that went into effect early last Thursday, is not applied in the West Bank, thus the Israeli troops are at liberty to carry out military operations.