IDF airstrikes in Gaza took out ten Palestinian Authority terrorists Monday night and Tuesday morning, including two senior Islamic Jihad leaders.

Majed Al-Harazin, among the terrorists killed in the first of three Israel Air Force attacks, was the commander of Islamic Jihad terrorist units throughout Gaza. Wanted by Israeli security services for many years, he was responsible for multiple attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians, including rocket attacks and attempted suicide bombings. Harazin's group said it carried out the rocket attack on Kibbutz Zikkim Sunday afternoon that wounded an Israeli toddler and sent his mother and six others into psychological shock.

PA residents said that weapons dealer Khalil Masarai and a third terrorist were also killed in the first strike. The three were reportedly hit by an Israeli missile as they drove through the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City in a car full of explosives. Seven PA residents who were in proximity to the targeted vehicle were injured; three of them seriously...

...IDF sources confirmed a second airstrike in Gaza later the same night. The second attack killed Karim Dahduh, the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket production, along with three others. Several terrorists were wounded. A third airstrike in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning killed three more Islamic Jihad terrorists...

...In related counter-terrorism activity overnight, security forces apprehended eleven wanted terrorists in Judea and Samaria. The wanted men were captured in Beit Oula, northwest of Hevron, Beit Oumar, southwest of Bethlehem, Kawat Bani Hassan, southeast of Kalkilya, Ba-Tira, west of Ramallah, Bituniya, west of Ramallah, and in Hevron. The terrorists were transferred to interrogators for questioning...

Even after IDF forces carried out counter-terrorism operations on Monday, enemy attackers in Gaza launched a barrage of at least eight rockets and mortar shells at the northern Negev. No injuries were reported, but damage to property was caused in the multiple bombings.

One PA mortar shell targeted soldiers near the Kissufim Crossing, while gunmen opened fire on an IDF patrol in the area. No soldiers were wounded in the attacks. PA terrorists often attack the civilian crossings between Gaza and the Negev region, leading the IDF to keep many of them closed when possible...