Israeli aircraft bomb Gaza targets

20/05/2009| IslamWeb

Israeli aircraft have bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip several hours after a rocket was fired at an Israeli town.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza city, said at least four people, including two civilians, were injured in the Israeli raids.

The Israeli military confirmed the air raids on Tuesday.

The air raids came as Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister on a visit to the US, was being pressed by the Obama administration to stop Israeli settlement activity and back a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

Earlier on Tuesday, a rocket fired from Gaza damaged a home in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.

The rocket caused no injury and there was no claim of responsibility.

It was the first rocket to strike inside an Israeli town in several weeks.

Most of Tuesday's air raids apparently targeted tunnels beneath the Gaza-Egypt border, near the town of Rafah.

Israeli warplanes frequently target the tunnels.

With Israel and Egypt enforcing a tight blockade on Gaza, Palestinians use the tunnels to bring in food, medicine and even livestock.

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Palestinians wait for their relatives to arrive into the Gaza Strip at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 17, 2009.

Agencies