Israeli airstrike targets Hamas camps in Gaza
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GAZA CITY —
Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas training camps in the Gaza
Strip early Tuesday, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave
said.
An Israeli helicopter fired six missiles at two different sites
northwest of Gaza city, both training camps for Hamas’s military wing,
the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, eyewitnesses said.
In addition, an Israeli aircraft fired four rockets at a Qassam training camp south of Gaza City, according to sources in Gaza.
There were no injuries in any of the attacks.
The Israeli military confirmed the strikes on the northern Gaza Strip, without mentioning the third one.
In a statement, the army said its “aircraft targeted two sites—a
weapon manufacturing site and a weapon storage facility in the northern
Gaza Strip.”
“Direct hits were confirmed. The sites were targeted in response to
the continuous rocket fire toward southern Israel,” the statement read.
On Monday, Gaza militants fired three mortars that hit southern Israel, causing no damages or injuries.
And on Sunday, two factories in the southern Israeli city Sderot were
damaged by rockets. A Salafist group from Gaza, Mujahedeen Shura
Council, assumed responsibility for that attack.
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has maintained a tacit truce with
Israel, but other armed Palestinian groups regularly fire rockets and
mortars across the border, which can spark air strikes in response.
Tensions regularly flare along the border between Israel and the Gaza
Strip, with Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state
and the Israeli military launching retaliatory air strikes on the
Palestinian territory.
The last major flare-up was in June when militants fired more than
150 rockets at southern Israel, wounding five people, and Israel hit
back with air strikes which killed 15 Palestinians.
© 2012 AFP
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