Thursday, March 24, 2011

Several rockets fired from Gaza falling on southern Israel

The first strike hit a former headquarters of the intelligence services of the Palestinian Authority in the north of the Palestinian territory, and several people wounded, witnesses said. The second raid targeted a group of Palestinian fighters who were preparing to fire mortar shells at Beit Hanun, near the border with Israel, the sources said.

The third strike destroyed a rocket launcher in the Zeitoun neighborhood, on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City. Finally, the fourth raid targeted a training ground for al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas to power in Gaza, in the refugee camp in Beach Camp, also in the northern territory.

Thursday afternoon, two Grad-type rockets fired from Gaza fell on southern Israel, near the port of Ashdod. "A rocket landed in the city and the other north of the city," said Micky Rosenfeld, spokesman for the Israeli police. These shots were no casualties. In all, there are no fewer than eleven bullets that were fired from Gaza into Israel.

The armed wing of Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds Brigades, claimed Wednesday his intention to strike deeper and deeper into Israel after the death of eight Palestinians, four civilians and four members of Saraya Al-Quds Israeli strikes in Gaza. "The step to target the two cities of Sderot and Ashkelon in southern Israel, is exceeded", said a spokesman for Al-Quds Brigades, Abu Ahmad, referring to two towns near the strip Gaza.

Hours earlier, Israeli warplanes launched another raid in northern Gaza against "terrorists who were preparing to launch rockets against Israel," said a spokesman for the army. This sequence murderer continues for several days, being the worst violence since the war in the Gaza Strip, there are more than two years.

In this context, on Wednesday, a bomb killed one person and over thirty wounded in Jerusalem. The attack, unclaimed for now, is the first bomb attack since the arrival in power of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in 2009. "They [Palestinian armed groups] are trying to test our will and determination, they will discover that this government, the army and the Israeli people have an iron will to defend their country," warned Israeli Prime Minister just before departing for a tour of twenty-four hours in Moscow.

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