Residents of the Gilad Farm Outpost began evacuating 4 caravan homes after reaching agreement with officials, agreeing to locate from land viewed by the government as “Palestinian” to an area inside the recognized borders of the yishuv.

** The air force during the night targeted terrorists in northern Gaza in retaliation for rockets fired into the Eshkol Regional Council district on Tuesday morning and a katyusha rocket that landed in Netivot at 22:30 Tuesday night. B’chasdei Hashem there were no injuries in the rocket attacks.

11:00: Israel Radio – 7-year-old child in Gaza died of injuries sustained in IAF raid two days ago bringing the death toll to 26.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)