Gaza rocket strikes Israel
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday struck an open field inside Israel without causing any casualties or damage.
By Agencies |
JERUSALEM: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday struck an open field inside Israel without causing any casualties or damage, police said.
Several rockets and mortar rounds have been fired from Gaza in recent weeks despite an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, which seized power in Gaza in June 2007.
Israeli troops on Thursday shot dead an unarmed Gaza militant near the fenced-off border of the impoverished territory, causing the first fatality since the truce came into force on June 19.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, said the man was one of its fighters and retaliated by firing two rockets into Israel.
The group has vowed to carry out further attacks, while Hamas has said it will arrest anyone who violates the truce.
Several rockets and mortar rounds have been fired from Gaza in recent weeks despite an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, which seized power in Gaza in June 2007.
Israeli troops on Thursday shot dead an unarmed Gaza militant near the fenced-off border of the impoverished territory, causing the first fatality since the truce came into force on June 19.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, said the man was one of its fighters and retaliated by firing two rockets into Israel.
The group has vowed to carry out further attacks, while Hamas has said it will arrest anyone who violates the truce.
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