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Israeli raids Gaza after rockets fired
SRAELI warplanes have conducted two air strikes in northern Gaza, several hours after militants fired rockets at southern Israel, the military says, despite both sides agreeing a truce.The raids were launched after a Palestinian rocket hit a town in southern Israel, lightly injuring one person, an army spokesman said. Palestinian security sources confirmed only one raid which struck a wood yard in northern Gaza City, setting the structure alight but without causing injuries. But a military statement said it had targeted "two terror activity sites in the northern Gaza Strip" in response to rocket fire on southern Israel yesterday, which came just hours after Israel and Gaza militant groups had agree to observe a ceasefire. "The targeting of these sites is in response to the rockets fired at Israel over the past day," it said. The spokesman said eight rockets had exploded in Israeli territory throughout yesterday. Under the terms of a truce agreement which came into force early yesterday, both Israel and militants from Islamic Jihad, who were responsible for most of the rocket attacks, had agreed to hold their fire. But there was no indication that either side saw the rocket fire, or the subsequent raids, as putting an end to the Egyptian-brokered agreement. The fighting erupted on Friday when Israel assassinated a militant leader, prompting armed groups to launch a barrage of rockets across the border. Israel hit back with multiple air strikes, leaving 25 people dead, most of them militants. In a separate development, medics said a seven-year-old Baraka al-Mughrabi died today from injuries sustained in a shooting accident at a funeral of one of the people killed in the Gaza confrontations. Family members told AFP he had been critically injured in the head during funeral in eastern Gaza City when there was gunfire in the air. Posted by: tipper 2012-03-14 |
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