The witnesses said Israeli war jets hovered over the Gaza Strip and fired several missiles at targets in the southern Gaza towns of Rafah and Khan Younis, adding that explosions were heard in both areas.
Paramedics said rescuers and ambulances rushed to the targeted areas, but no injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry in Gaza said several buildings and locations were evacuated on Saturday and Sunday for fear of Israeli airstrikes that had been lasting for three weeks in response to rocket attacks.
Israel Radio reported that three Grad rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheba. No injuries or damaged were caused.
Earlier Saturday, Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, dismissed as "exaggerated and untrue" media report that Hamas and Israel were close to reaching a calm agreement through mediators.
He said, in an e-mailed statement, that there were contacts through mediators that he did not name, to know Hamas position concerning the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza, east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
"In principle, neither Hamas nor the Palestinian factions are interested in escalating the situation with Israel," said Abu Zuhri, who accused Israel of trying to escalate tension in the Gaza Strip.
He also called on Israel "to immediately stop its aggression on the Palestinian people in Gaza, West bank and east Jerusalem."
On Saturday, the Israeli media quoted an unnamed Hamas official as saying that there were contacts to reach calm in the Gaza Strip, and that he expected an agreement would be reached Sunday night.
Sources:Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
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Israeli military strikes 10 sites in Gaza Strip...
ReplyDeleteThe Israeli military said it has carried out airstrikes on 10 militant sites in the Gaza Strip, including rocket launchers and a weapons manufacturing site, according to the Associated Press.
The airstrikes early Sunday come in reaction to the rockets and mortars fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel during the weekend.
Two of those rockets were aimed at Beersheba, a southern city in Israel. The military said its “Iron Dome” defense system intercepted the two rockets.
Also on Sunday, a Palestinian was arrested by the army in the West Bank city of Hebron. His family identified him as Hossam Dufesh.
The army would not elaborate on the arrest. Israeli forces have concentrated its search for the killers of three Israeli teens on the Hebron area last week.
The bodies of Gil-Ad Shaer and U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, were found in a field near Hebron, a militant stronghold and the hometown of two Hamas members identified by Israel as the kidnappers and still at large.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu blamed Hamas and vowed that they would answer for it.
Mohammad Abu Khdeir
Menwhile, the body of 16-year-old Mohammad Abu Khdeir was found in a forest earlier this week after he was seized near his home in east Jerusalem.
Palestinians have accused Israeli extremists for the killing in a revenge attack for three Israeli teens.
Police said an investigation is ongoing to determine who killed the teen and why.
(With Reuters)
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/06/Israel-strikes-10-militant-sites-in-Gaza-Strip.html
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