Abbas Kammal, Egypt’s chief of intelligence cancelled a planned visit to Israel on Wednesday, as a result of the tensions between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Abbas was set to visit Israel as part of Egypt’s mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Security Cabinet, including Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, the heads of the NSC and Shin Bet, and the Deputy Chief of Staff, will meet on Wednesday to discuss the Gaza escalation.

“The rocket types fired tonight belong only to two organizations in the Gaza Strip – Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,”  the IDF said in a statement. “Hamas must understand that the responsibility for the Gaza Strip and what is happening there is his. There is a direct connection between the atmosphere of violence and terror that Hamas creates with terrorist operations during  the day and the night’s shooting.”

A Hamas terror tunnel was amongst 20 targets hit in air strikes by the IDF following sporadic rocket fire on Wednesday morning.

The IDF confirmed that the tunnel was located in southern Gaza, and that other targets including production sites of aerial weapons and rockets were struck. It added that significant damage was done to Hamas’s capabilities.

According to the Eshkol Regional Council spokesperson, three incendiary balloons were found in the region on Wednesday morning.

A greenhouse was damaged by one of the balloons. There are no casualties