IDF Spokesperson January 5th, 2009

Summary of Overnight Activity

The IDF operation continued overnight with large infantry, tank,
engineering, artillery and intelligence forces operating throughout the Gaza
Strip with the assistance of the Israel Air Force and Israel Navy.

IAF planes struck over 30 targets including:
· A mosque used for storing a large amount of weaponry
· An underground Bunker in the area of Gaza city. The attack caused
secondary explosions indicating there were explosives inside. Tunnels in the
area collapsed.
· A number of tunnels in the area of Rafah used by Hamas terror
organization as passages for terrorists in and out of the Gaza Strip and
that formed part of the purchasing and supply system of the organization
· 4 houses of Hamas members that were used to store weaponry
· A rocket launcher
· A suspected anti-aircraft missile launcher

Israel Navy boats assisted the ground forces and attacked a number of
targets including rocket launching areas, a bunker and Hamas marine forces
outposts.

An IDF officer and five IDF soldiers were lightly to moderately wounded in
different incident of exchanges of fire in the northern Gaza Strip.

The IDF will continue to operate against the Hamas terror infrastructure in
the Gaza Strip according to plans in order to reduce the rocket fire on the
south of Israel.