Friday, March 25, 2011

Tension between Israelis and Palestinians

.- New Gaza rockets from the Palestinian territories BFHI impact on Israeli soil, near a town south of Tel Aviv, while Israel jets fired on targets in the Gaza Strip. The Israel Police reported that two long-range Grad rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, had hit in Ashdod and in an area north of the Mediterranean Sea port, without any casualties.

Emergency services have also reported the firing of rockets that had beaten near Yavneh, a town 45 kilometers from Gaza and 20 kilometers from Tel Aviv. This area has already been attacked during the War of Gaza, between December 2008 and January 2009. In addition, the Israel Army has reported that five rockets and a mortar shell fired from Gaza into Israeli territory had exploded, causing no casualties.

Schools remained closed in the towns of Ashdod and Beersheba. For his part, Israeli aircraft carried out several bombings in Gaza, in order to destroy the smuggling tunnels on the border between Gaza and Egypt, a Hamas training camp, a store of rockets and an electric transformer, causing blackouts in the area.

Medical workers said they would not have been injured. The Israeli Civil Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that "the responsibility is entirely on Hamas." "We know how to act and we have seen in the past, will strike proportionately as needed", has said in remarks to Israel Radio. Israel has said that air strikes were a response to rocket fire.

Hamas has explained that the attacks of recent weeks were caused by Israeli bombing. On Tuesday several Palestinian militants were killed and four civilians, including three children, Israel's attacks on the Strip. Violence between the two countries has increased in recent days, including a bomb attack Wednesday at the main bus station in Jerusalem, in which a woman died and 30 people were wounded, and Israeli police attributed to Palestinian militants.

This upsurge in attacks has raised fears of another war between Israel and the Islamists of Hamas, which rules the Gaza since 2007, after months of relative calm.

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