IDF kills two Palestinians apparently laying bomb at Gaza fence

Israeli soldiers spot the two as they approached the barrier in the southern Strip and open fire; security forces believe the men were part of an Islamic Jihad cell
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IDF forces shot dead two suspected Palestinian terrorists apparently carrying a bomb near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.
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    • Both Palestinians were apparently killed in the incident east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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    Security forces believe the two were part of a cell from the Islamic Jihad terror group.
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    Palestinians at the scene of the incident along the Gaza fence
    The incident began when IDF troops spotted the two approaching the border fence north of Khan Yunis and placed a device identified as a bomb against the fence.
    IDF troops from the Kfir Brigade, which is responsible for the area, rushed to the scene and opened fire at the two Palestinians before the device exploded, apparently killing the two Palestinians.
    The incident comes as Israel is making strenuous efforts to create a period of calm along the Gaza border, where its communities come under almost daily rocket, mortar and balloon bomb attacks from the Strip.
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    IDF troops observing Palestinian terrorist activity in the Gaza border area
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    Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met told the heads of local authorities in the Gaza Strip that it would be difficult to order a significant military operation in Gaza in the pre-election period.
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    "We are preparing for all scenarios, including a wide-scale operation. If there is no choice, then that is also an option," Netanyahu said.
    "The arrangement [for calm with Hamas] is better than war and we must exhaust every angle."
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    Abbas will pay the families for decades to come.
    These morons will be added to the Wall of Martyrs at Hamas headquarters. They will have streets and schools named after them. Haniyeh will speak at their funerals, about the 'resistance' and how these wasted lives supported Hamas's goal of destroying Israel. And the mothers and fathers of these dead fools will gush with pride about how they only wish they had more children to offer up to die for Hamas. Rational people will have a hard time understanding such a warped culture of death-love, but that's is what Hamas is. Destroying Israel is the only mission- destroying Gaza families doesn't get in the way. Brainwashed kids, brainwashed parents. Thank you Arafat and Abbas and Haniyeh. You have brought only misery and death to your people. And the people are too dumb to figure this out for themselves. Just build a stronger wall and be done with it. It's the only way to be sure.
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    At least the Gaza gang died doing something that they loved
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    The terrorists sure have a passion for mental illness
    It's too bad they all don't die at once.
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