As Israeli jets bombed Gaza, Egypt was also drawn into the conflict. Cairo lodged a protest against the deaths of at least three policemen and two other Egyptians caught in the crossfire as Israeli troops pursued the attackers in Thursday’s raid across the border between the two states.
The Egyptian chief of staff, Gen Sami Enan, headed to the Sinai to investigate personally.
At least eight Palestinians were killed in a bombing yesterday – six said to be leaders of the militant group Israel has held responsible for the attacks, the Popular Resistance Committees, but two said by local officials to be children aged three and 13. The first was son of the group’s leader.
The attacks on Thursday claimed the lives of six Israeli civilians, a soldier and a policeman, while six of the attackers were also killed and a seventh blew himself up as they fled back over the border with the Egyptian Sinai.
In Israel itself, ten people were injured, one critically, when a grad missile fired from Gaza in response to the bombing raids hit a temporary building being used as a synagogue outside a yeshiva or religious school in the Israeli port city of Ashdod.
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