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Israel is still reeling from Thursday's series of terrorist attack that killed eight Israeli citizens and wounded 30 more near the Jewish state's southern border with Egypt. And beyond the immediate shock of the attacks, analysts are also concerned about the potential for escalating violence spiraling from the Thursday attacks.Israel blamed the series of attacks on a shadowy Palestinian terrorist group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), based in the Gaza strip. The group reportedly has ties to both Hamas' military wing and the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
The attacks unfolded beginning at noon on Thursday. Gunmen reportedly crossed from the Gaza strip into Egypt and then into southern Israel and opened fire on an Israeli Egged bus traveling from the southern Israeli city of Beersheva to the resort town of Eilat. That assault wounded seven people, according to a timeline of the attacks published by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Half an hour later, an Israeli Defense Forces unit responding to that attack were wounded by an explosive device. At 12:35pm, mortars were fired from Egypt into Israel, but no one was hurt; by 1:10, an Israeli anti-tank vehicle fielded shots near the Egyptian-Israeli border, an attack that wounded seven more people. At nearly the same moment, at 1:11pm, another anti-tank missile was fired at a private vehicle, killing six people. In all, eight people were killed, including six civilians, and two Israeli security forces.
Israel began retaliating Thursday evening by bombing the Popular Resistance Committee's headquarters in Rafah, on the Gaza strip's border with Egypt. The Israeli counterattack killed the head of the PRC, and several of his aides, as well as a Palestinian boy. The Israeli air force has continued to strike targets in Gaza, killing two more PRC members in a strike Friday on Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Safwat Al Kahlout reported. It has also retaliated against rocket attacks coming from Egypt.
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