IDF: Gaza air strike foiled massive terrorist attack AP and jpost.com staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 4, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1186066377750&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

A massive terror attack was foiled Saturday night when an IAF air strike on
two vehicles near the southern Gaza Strip's border with Egypt killed two
Palestinians, including an Islamic Jihad operative, and wounded 21 others,
the IDF said.

The army said that one of the vehicles was carrying Islamic Jihad operatives
and was filled with explosive devices including suicide bomb belts.
The group, said the IDF, was on its way to carry out a huge terror attack
against Israelis.

Islamic Jihad said some of its members were in at least one of the two
vehicles hit in the IAF strike near the Rafah Crossing - a Mercedes saloon
and a pickup truck parked alongside. Eyewitnesses said several blasts came
from the pickup after the attack, suggesting that it had been carrying
explosives. Three of those
wounded were Islamic Jihad operatives and were in serious condition.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing a rocket into a Sderot
neighborhood shortly before the air strike, but it was not clear if they
were the same group hit by the IAF strike. Two more rockets were fired at
the western Negev on Saturday night. No casualties or damage were reported
as a result of the Kassam attacks.