Gaza militants fire rockets at Israel

Source: Xinhua | 02-01-2009 17:17

GAZA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Gaza militants fired four homemade rockets on Sunday morning from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip at southern Israel causing no damages or injuries, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

Palestinian militants fire a rocket from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on January 16. (AFP/File/Jack Guez)

Israeli Radio Arabic service quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying that four makeshift rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, landed at empty areas of Western Negev in southern Israel. No damages or injuries reported.

The Radio said that three rockets landed on Sunday morning at Ashkol area east of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, adding that the forth rocket landed at an area near Sh'ar Hanegev community.

One of the rockets, said the spokesman, landed between two kindergartens causing no damages or injuries. No one claimed responsibility for firing three rockets from Gaza at Israel.

However, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility for firing the forth rocket at the Western Negev area in southern Israel Sunday morning.

Since the unilateral declaration of a temporarily ceasefire announced by both Israel and Gaza militant groups on Jan. 18, several rockets were fired by small militant groups, who rejected a ceasefire with Israel.

Meanwhile, the radio said that Palestinian militants from Gaza opened fire at Israeli soldiers stationed at the military post of Kisufim on the border east of the Gaza Strip with Israel. The Israeli soldiers responded to the fire.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei