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Israeli warplanes strike southern Gaza
Israeli warplanes attacked targets near Egypt's borders in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said early Wednesday.Minutes before midnight, F-16 jets dropped a bomb on a smuggling tunnel beneath the borders, used by Palestinians to bring in various goods into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Shortly afterwards, the planes fired three missiles at destroyed installations that once served as Gaza's airport in southeastern Rafah, security sources added. On Tuesday night, a home-made rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel, causing no damage. The Israeli attacks in Rafah apparently came in response to the rocket-fire which was claimed by a previously-unknown Islamist Salafi group. Posted by: ryuge 2010-02-10 |
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