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Rocket fired from Gaza Strip lands harmlessly in southern Israel

July 3, 2011

Rocket fired from Gaza Strip lands harmlessly in southern Israel.

Al Arabiya

Sunday, 03 July 2011

The rocket was the first fired from Gaza since June 16, when a projectile launched from the coastal enclave also landed in Eshkol. (File photo)

By AFP
JERUSALEM

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck open fields in southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, the Israeli army said.

“A rocket fired from Gaza fell this morning on open land in the Eshkol region,” an army spokeswoman said.

The rocket was the first fired from Gaza since June 16, when a projectile launched from the coastal enclave also landed in Eshkol, but the border between Gaza and Israel has been largely calm in recent months.

In early April, tensions increased after a rocket-propelled grenade fired from Gaza struck an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager.

Israel responded with a series of airstrikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians in the deadliest violence since Israel’s 22-day Operation Cast Lead on the Palestinian territory in 2008-2009.

The violence raised fears of another such assault, but on April 10 the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip declared a return to the truce that ended Cast Lead in January 2009, and the calm has largely held since then.

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Syria security forces deployed at Hama after mass protest

July 3, 2011

Syria security forces deployed at Hama after mass protest – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Tanks deployed at entrance to city north of Damascus, two days after Hama saw largest anti-Assad protest since start of uprising.

By Reuters

Syrian tanks have deployed at the entrances to the city of Hama, activists and residents said on Sunday, two days after it saw the largest protest against President Bashar Assad since an uprising began three months ago.

“Tens of people are being arrested in neighborhoods on the edges of Hama. The authorities seem to have opted for a military solution to subdue the city,” Rami Abdel-Rahman, president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Reuters.

	Syrian anti-government protesters tearing down a portrait of late president Hafez Assad, right, and his son, President Bashar Assad, in Hama, April 29, 2011.
	Photo by: AFP

Hama, 210 km north of Damascus, was the scene of the bloodiest episode in Syria’s modern history, when troops killed up to 30,000 people in an assault in 1982 to put down an Islamist-led uprising against the iron rule of Assad’s father, the late President Hafez Assad.

On Saturday, President Bashar Assad sacked the governor of Hama province on Saturday, a day after tens of thousands of protesters massed in the provincial capital to demand the Syrian leader step down.

The demonstration in Hama, scene of a bloody crackdown by Assad’s father nearly 30 years ago, was part of nationwide protests which activists said were some of the biggest since the uprising against Assad’s rule erupted 14 weeks ago.

Another 10 people were shot dead by security forces who confronted demonstrators in the central city of Homs, Damascus suburbs and the Mediterranean city of Latakia, activists said.

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