Israel launches Gaza air strikes in retaliation for Eilat attacks
Israel launched airstrikes in Gaza after a group of militants initiated an attack in Israel that killed seven people. The militants attacked buses, cars and an army patrol and were armed with guns and explosives. The Israels maintained that they had credible and specific intelligence that the attackers were from Gaza. Hamas maintains that the attackers did not come from Gaza and instead that they had crossed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Israeli Security Forces killed seven of the attackers involved in the attacks and five people died in Gaza from the Israeli strikes there.