 Israel apologized and attributed the Beit Hanoun shelling to a technical malfunction.Israel said the shells were fired in response to the firing of qassam rockets, probably from a car, the previous day (7 November).By 8 November, the 240 airstrikes in 8 days, ground clashes and destruction of land and buildings of the IDF's Operation Autumn Clouds, had left 68 Palestinians (at least 50 of them militants ) dead, including two Palestinian ambulance workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and over 150 injured, compared to 1 IDF soldier killed and 1 injured.