GAZA: Israel targets tunnels in a series of overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip

Record ID: 411151

  • Title: GAZA: Israel targets tunnels in a series of overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip
  • Date: 22nd December 2010
  • Summary: RAFAH, GAZA (DECEMBER 21, 2010) (REUTERS) DAMAGED STRUCTURES NEAR THE EGYPTIAN-GAZA BORDER CRATER CAUSED BY AIR STRIKE ON SMUGGLING TUNNELS CARRIED OUT BY ISRAEL OVERNIGHT VARIOUS OF DAMAGED EQUIPMENT INSIDE CRATER VARIOUS OF PEOPLE STANDING NEAR CRATER AND OBSERVING DAMAGE MORE OF TENTS NEAR BORDER AREA VARIOUS OF OPENING OF TUNNEL THAT WAS NOT DAMAGED IN AIR STRIK
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  • Location: Gaza, Gaza
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVABFR1ODED95K63FD2NSUDX0WDV
  • Story Text: Israel carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (December 21), Palestinian officials and witnesses said, after militants from the Hamas-ruled territory fired rockets into southern Israel.
    No one was reported killed in any of the strikes that targeted a Hamas training camp, where two gunmen were wounded, as well as on tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt and other, unpopulated areas, Hamas officials and witnesses said.
    An Israeli military spokesman said at least 14 rockets had been launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip in the past two days.
    A rocket that later struck an Israeli agricultural community along the Mediterranean coast lightly wounded one person who was taken to hospital, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Media reports said the rocket landed near a local kindergarten.
    A spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the latest rocket launch and said it was fired in retaliation for Israel's air strikes.
    Hamas leaders have tried to curb rocket fire at Israel, but smaller groups continue to carry out such attacks.
    Israel's military said more than 200 cross-border missiles, rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza this year.
    An air strike in Gaza on Saturday (December 18) killed five militants from a rocket-launching squad.
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