IAF hits Gaza targets in wake of Qassam rocket attack
IAF hits Gaza targets in wake of Qassam rocket attack – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Israel Air Force jets struck two targets in southern Gaza Strip Saturday night in response to an earlier homemade projectile fired from Gaza at southern Israel.
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An explosion from an Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip on Dec. 27, 2008. |
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No injuries were reported, witnesses and medics said.
The witnesses said that F16 war jets hovered over the southern Gaza Strip area and carried out two successive airstrikes. Air-to-ground rockets were fired and caused two huge explosions.
The first airstrike targeted an empty olive farm east of the city of Khan Younis and the second targeted a smuggling tunnel under the borderline between Egypt and the salient, ruled by Islamic Hamas movement.
Medics at southern Gaza hospitals said that ambulances and rescue crews rushed to the theatre of the airstrikes, no injuries were reported.
The two Israeli airstrikes were carried out several hours after unknown militants fired earlier on Saturday a homemade rocket from Gaza at southern Israel. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that the rocket landed on an empty area in southern Israel causing no damages or injuries.

November 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM
JUST AS SOON AS THE HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH ROCKETS KILL EVEN A DOG IN THE STREETS OF ISRAEL I WOULD POUND THEM TO HELL WITH A BUTT LOAD OF MUNITIONS. THEN THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT ISRAEL IS NOT A KILLING FIELD FOR SOME DAMNED JIHADISTS GLORY TO SOME VANE ASSED PAGAN GOD.