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JERUSALEM, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Israel's army said it arrested two armed Palestinian men who "infiltrated" Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday evening.
"A short while ago, two suspects, armed with grenades, infiltrated Israel from the southern Gaza Strip," a military spokesperson said in a statement.
Soldiers caught and arrested them near the security fence, according to the statement.
It was not immediately clear if the two men were affiliated with any militant group.
"The incident is under investigation," the statement read.
Over the past decade, Israel has uncovered multiple cross-border tunnels allegedly built by Hamas, the Islamist organization that controls Gaza, to carry out attacks against Israel.
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast War and has ever since been cutting these territories off from the outer world.
Israel's last offensive on Gaza in the summer of 2014 claimed the lives of at least 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
