Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who tried to enter a kibbutz in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip overnight.
The Israeli army said the gunmen threw grenades at soldiers who confronted them near Kibbutz Kissufim, a collective farm near the Gaza border.
The troops killed one gunman in an initial exchange of fire and later shot dead the other after a chase. Two soldiers, including a colonel, were slightly hurt.
The militant Islamic Jihad group said the gunmen were from its Jerusalem Brigades.
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The army also said a roadside bomb planted along the Gaza-Israel border fence blew up overnight as an army patrol passed by. No one was hurt.