Israel jets hit northern Gaza
13/03/2008| IslamWeb
Israeli fighter jets have hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip after a dozen rockets were fired towards southern
Thursday's developments effectively ended a tacit truce since March 8 respected by both sides, and came a day after the deaths of several Palestinian fighters at the hands of Israeli forces.
The rockets, fired from the Gaza Strip, caused no harm.
"The Israeli air force raid targeted a rocket launch that was ready to fire in the Beit Hanoun area in the northern Gaza Strip," an Israeli army spokesman said.
"Twelve rockets were fired from
"Two of the rockets exploded at Sderot, damaging a building, but without injuring anybody."
Palestinian hospital officials said no one was hurt in the Beit Hanoun air raid.
Islamic Jihad targeted
Thursday's violence was preceded by the slayings of five Palestinian fighters, including two senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad, in the West Bank town of
Palestinian security officials said Wednesday's dead included Mohammed Shahada, 48, a senior leader in the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and Ahmed al-Balbul, 48, a senior official in the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Fatah.
Two others were identified as Imad al-Kamel and Eissa Marzuk, both from the Islamic Jihad.
The four were killed by undercover Israeli units in the middle of
Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli forces killed Saleh Karkour, 27, an Islamic Jihad activist, in Saida, a village near Tulkarem in the northern
Israeli forces exchanged fire and killed Karkour, then demolished part of the house where he was staying.
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File photo shows an Israeli F16C Jet fighters landing at the Ramat David Israeli air force base in northern