five youths were smugglers. The IDF said it would investigate the incident. April 18: Two Israelis, one engineering NCO and one civilian, were wounded by a Palestinian sniper in an attack on Philadelphi Route of southern Gaza. The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility. April 21: Three Israeli soldiers were hurt in a blast when their jeep went on an IED roadside bomb, near Karni crossing, on the edge of the Gaza Strip. April 22 and April 23: A Qassam rocket was launched toward the northern Gaza community. No casualties were reported. Also, Palestinian militants stabbed a soldier near Ganim settlement, injuring him moderately. April 25: Tsiki Eyal, 23, an Israel reserves soldier was killed in Hebron, in an incident involving a running Palestinian car. Initial reports said an Israeli reserves soldier was killed, when he was run over by a Palestinian car in Hebron. Soldiers at the scene opened fire and killed the fleeing driver. Autopsy found bullets remain in the soldier's head, suggesting the soldier was hit by his comrades after they opened fire on the fleeing car. Recent reports say that the driver was unarmed and did not have ties to any militant organization. It is still unclear whether the incident was a deliberate attack by the driver or a combination of a dark night and misunderstanding that caused a fatal accident. Dead Israeli shot by his comrades May May 2: Following an Israeli raid on the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, one Israeli soldier and one Islamic Jihad leader are killed. The soldier is killed in a gunfight with 3 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The three were suspected to have been a part of the cell which was involved in Tel Aviv "Stage" club bombing in February 2005. Shafiq Abdul Rani, the leader of the Jihad cell in Tulkarm was killed and another militant was arrested. May 5: Israeli soldiers open fire on a group of stone-throwing teenagers, killing two. Palestinians killed in West Bank May 16: A Palestinian was killed after he tried to stab a soldier. May 16: Four Israeli construction workers were injured by a Palestinian anti-tank rocket attack on Philadelphi Route. May 18: It was the peak of a sharp increase in violence in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian factions shelled Israeli settlements and towns with more than 31 mortar shells and Qassam rockets. Two Hamas militants were killed this day: one in