The IDF killed five Hamas terrorists, and wounded a number of PRC terrorists. Nicely done, but not good enough, since rockets are being fired just about every day.

An Israeli airstrike killed five Hamas members early Saturday, prompting threats by Gaza militants to fire longer-range rockets at Israeli border towns.

Eight people were wounded, including one critically, in the strike near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, close to the border with Israel, said Moaiya Hassanain of Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Hamas said the dead were members of its military wing, while many of the injured belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees, a smaller militant group allied with Hamas. Hamas said the men were on a night patrol east of the town.

Gee, you think that “patrol” may have been like this one?

Each six-man unit travels with rocket-launchers, machineguns and grenades and carries a locally made antitank mine similar to the explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that have wreaked havoc against allied armoured vehicles in Iraq.

If so, good shooting, IDF. Five out of six!

And of course, the threats continue:

Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, said his brother was one of those killed in the airstrike. “This is a tax we pay for (creating) a homeland,” he said.

Abu Mujahed said his group had plans to fire longer-range rockets at Israel.

“The real barrage of rockets has not yet begun,” Abu Mujahed said, adding that “22 kilometers is not the ceiling.”

It appeared to be a threat to use 122mm Katyusha rockets, which can hit targets up to 19 miles away, about twice the range of the thousands of homemade Qassam projectiles that Gaza militants have fired at Israeli communities in recent years.

Gee, ya think? And once again, note the modifier “homemade,” as if these rockets don’t kill or wound. They do.