Israel has launched a series of air raids on tunnels under the border between Gaza and Egypt after Palestinian fighters fired mortars into Israeli, witnesses say. The bombings took place on Saturday near the Gazan town of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of any injuries caused by the raids.
Israel said that three mortars were launched towards its territory from the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, causing no casualties. The Palestinian Resistance Committees, an armed group in Gaza, said that it had fired the mortars.
The raids on Saturday came a day after Israel bombed tunnels, saying they were used to smuggle weapons into Gaza, a coastal territory under the de facto control of Hamas, an armed Palestinian political group.
The latest round of Israeli air raids are the first to target Palestinian tunnels in nearly two months. Missile fire by Palestinian rocket squads has fallen since Egypt began efforts to ensure that an 18 January truce that ended Israel's 22-day offensive on Gaza holds.
Israel launched its war on Gaza with the stated aim of preventing armed groups in Gaza from firing rockets towards its territory. At least 1,417 Palestinians were killed during the war, of whom 926 were civilians, a Palestinian human rights organisation says. The Israeli military says the death toll was 1,166, of whom 295 were civilians. At least thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, died over the course of the conflict.
02 May 2009
Almost balanced reporting
al-Jazeera.net has a report on the latest bombings and mortarings in Gaza, and (amazingly) almost sounds like a real press service:
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