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World Jewish News
Gaza militants fire three mortar shells into west Negev
06.05.2009
Gaza militants fired three mortar shells into the western Negev on Wednesday, Army Radio reported, continuing a recent upsurge in border violence that has ruptured a two-week lull.
The shells exploded in the Sha'ar Hanegev region, causing neither casualties nor damage.
The attack came one day after the New York Times published an interview with Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal, whose Islamist group controls Gaza, in which he said gunmen in the coastal strip had unilaterally ceased cross border attacks.
Over the weekend, the Israel Air Force bombed five tunnel systems used for smuggling arms and other goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
The air strikes were launched in response to renewed rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Sources in the Israel Defense Forces say the targets were destroyed.
At least two Palestinians died in the raids, according to emergency workers in the Gaza Strip. The dead are believed to be the first fatalities in fighting between Israel and the Palestinians since an air strike against tunnels in March.
Источник: Haaretz
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