An explosion hit a vehicle of the Multinational Force and Observers today, wounding two peacekeepers near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.

An explosion occurred today at the airport of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai peninsula near the north-east Egyptian town of Rafah, said Egyptian security officials.

Palestinians fired mortars at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and a farming village in Israel overnight, drawing Israeli return fire that seriously wounded a supporter of the Islamic militant group Hamas.