- Title: GAZA: Palestnians in Gaza awake to ruins following overnight Israeli air strikes
- Date: 30th May 2010
- Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (MAY 29, 2010) (REUTERS) ===NIGHT PICTURES=== VARIOUS OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY AIRSTRIKE (2 SHOTS) RESIDENTS LOOKING AT DEBRIS MASONRY ON GROUND RESIDENTS LOOKING AT DAMAGE RAFAH, GAZA (MAY 29, 2010) (REUTERS) ===DAY PICTURES== DESTRUCTION AT SITE OF SECOND OVERNIGHT ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE RESIDENTS WORKING AT SITE TO COLLECT DEBRIS RESIDENTS LOADING
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- Topics: International Relations,Defence / Military
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- Story Text: Palestinians awake to the sight of destruction in Gaza after the Israeli army carries out a series of overnight airstrikes on the Strip.
Israel carried out two air strikes on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, Palestinian sources and the Israeli military said on Saturday (May 29).
The air strikes were a response to a rocket fired into Israel on Friday (May 28) and an attempt by militants to infiltrate Israel on Thursday (May 27) from the Hamas-controlled territory, an Israeli military spokesman said.
The spokesman added that the strikes targeted tunnels used by militants to infiltrate Israel in the Southern Gaza Strip as well as a weapons' manufacturing site in the north.
No injuries were reported.
The Hamas Islamist group, which seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, has said it has reached an understanding with other militant organisations to halt rocket fire.
But smaller groups have refused to cease and continue to fire at Israel.
Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks carried out from the coastal territory. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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