IDF Spokesperson January 7th, 2009

Summary of Overnight Events

IDF forces, including infantry, tanks, combat engineers, artillery, and
intelligence, continue to operate throughout the Gaza Strip with the
assistance of the Israel Air Force and the Israeli Navy.

Throughout the night IDF forces on the ground in Gaza clashed with several
groups of gunmen and neutralized booby-trapped structures. Soldiers also
uncovered a number of weaponry caches, large stores of explosives, and
hiding tunnels. A soldier was lightly wounded during the operations.

The IAF struck over 40 targets throughout Gaza, including:

Rocket launching sites and bunkers used by armed terrorists
Groups of armed Hamas operatives
Various structures used by Hamas terror operatives
Over ten tunnels used by Hamas, some of them located under the homes of
operatives. Large secondary explosions observed as a result of some of the
strikes indicate the likely presence of explosives inside the tunnels