A fragile calm was restored around the Gaza Strip last weekend after a series of attacks and counter-attacks between Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian groups.
Israel claimed that the Palestinians fired on IDF forces to prevent operations to uncover and destroy Hamas-built tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel.
In recent weeks, in what seems to have been a result of intelligence work and the employment of new, high-tech sensors, Israel has uncovered two tunnels, most likely for use in future attacks.
Hamas has claimed that the Israeli operations were an infringement of their territory and, last week, it ordered snipers and mortar teams to fire at Israeli troops.
