The IDF Spokesperson Unit has confirmed that several mortar rounds were recently fired at forces engaged in operational activity adjacent to the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip.

No injuries have been reported, according to the statement. “An IDF tank responded and fired towards the threat,” it said.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (Likud) stressed that Israel will remain undeterred in the wake of the most recent discovery of another Hamas terror tunnel.

“We will not be deterred by these threats of Hamas, and we will continue operations in light of the breach of our sovereignty until we find and uncover the last tunnel,” said Yaalon. “Since Hamas fired, we also responded and will continue to respond firmly to any such provocation by Hamas so that there will be no escalation and so that Hamas will not continue firing (on Israel).

In recent days, the IDF uncovered a Hamas tunnel reaching into Israeli territory from southern Gaza.

A two-minute siren was sounded at 10 AM today, Holocaust Remembrance Day all throughout Israel in commemoration of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Israel’s Air Force targeted four Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites overnight located in the northern Gaza Strip, in response to the continued firing of mortar rounds and rockets by the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza since May 3rd.

Lt. Col. and IDF spokesman Peter Lerner emphasized that the IDF’s actions were nothing more than an attempt to neutralize the Hamas organization’s attempts of igniting the situation.

“Hamas’ continued aggression jeopardizes the people’s mutual interest and right to a calm and quiet normal life,” Lerner responded. “Our activities are intended to restore the quiet and negate the threat.”

“Our efforts to locate and destroy the Hamas terror tunnel network are our main priority due to the serious threat to the lives and wellbeing of Israeli civilians,” continued Lerner. “The IDF does not, and will not, tolerate any attempt to threaten the lives of the people of Southern Israel and is determined to continue to foil any attempt to do so. “