The Israel Defense Forces began Sunday to reinforce one its southern bases, after a recent Qassam strike from the Gaza Strip wounded five soldiers at the base.
On Sunday morning, concrete cinder blocks were delivered to the training base, which has been hit by the homemade rockets on more than one occasion.
A senior IDF officer told Haaretz over the weekend that Islamic Jihad has been upgrading their Qassam rockets, and the terrorist group's shelling barrages in recent weeks have been much more precise in finding their targets than in the past.
On Saturday afternoon, militants fired a Qassam at Israel, but it landed within Gaza. Except for this incident, the Gaza border was relatively quiet over the weekend, in what was described as an unexpected lull.
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