Israeli planes hit Gaza

Israeli aircraft bombed targets in southern Gaza after dark on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties after Israeli warplanes struck at smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza with Egypt on Tuesday and fired a missile at a training camp of the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had warned Hamas of a harsh response to any further rocket fire from Gaza, although the country's defense minister, Ehud Barak, has said he does not foresee a new all-out offensive.

Both sides ordered ceasefires on Jan 18 after Israel's devastating 22-day blitz on Hamas-run Gaza, in which more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed.

There have been sporadic Israeli air strikes and mortar shelling since the ceasefire was declared, in which 7 Palestinian civilians and were killed, as well as a roadside bomb blast that killed an Israeli soldier on a Gaza border patrol. Fighters said they were responding to Israeli fire.

PHOTO CAPTION

A Palestinian surveys a metal workshop destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 29, 2009.

Agencies

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