Hamas attack on Israeli beach settlement repelled

HAMAS yesterday launched an ill-fated sea-borne attack on an Israeli beach-front settlement in Gaza.

The militant Palestinian group said it was the first of “earthshaking operations to come”.

But it was not the success that planners had hoped for. Three armed Palestinians in wetsuits and flippers emerged from the Mediterranean and fired shots at the Tel Katifa settlement. Two attackers were killed and a third was wounded and fled.