Friday, March 25, 2011
Gaza rocket attacks strike Israel
Two rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, a day after Israeli air strikes on the Hamas-controlled territory.
One rocket exploded near the southern port city of Ashdod and the other landed south of Tel Aviv, Israeli military officials said.
There are no reports so far of casualties.
The rocket attacks come amid growing cross-border tensions between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials said one of the Grad rockets fired on Thursday landed north of Ashdod and the other exploded in Yavneh, about 25km (15 miles) south of Tel Aviv.
Rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Wednesday prompted Israeli air strikes east of Gaza City.
The Islamic Jihad militant group said it had carried out the earlier attacks, in reprisal for the killing of eight Palestinians near Gaza City on Tuesday. Four of those killed were members of one family, and included two children.
Exchanges since Saturday have been among the most serious since Israel's major offensive in the coastal strip between December 2008 and January 2009.
On Wednesday, a bomb left at a bus stop in Jerusalem killed one person and wounded many others. No group has said it carried out that attack.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-12851175
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