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WORLD / Middle East
Rocket wounds 25 in southern Israel
(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-11 10:00
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian rocket from the Gaza Strip landed near an army
base in southern Israel early Tuesday, wounding 25 people, Israeli medics
and the army said.
A Palestinian rocket from the Gaza Strip landed near an army base in
southern Israel early Tuesday, wounding 25 people, Israeli medics and the
army said. [AFP]
The army confirmed that a rocket had landed in a base about a half-mile
north of the Gaza Strip and said dozens of people were being treated on
the scene for moderate to light injuries.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fire crude rockets almost daily
at towns in southern Israel, wreaking panic but rarely causing serious
casualties. If confirmed, the injuries in Tuesday's early morning attack
would be the most caused by a single rocket.
Attacks last week on the working-class town of Sderot, including one near
a crowded day care center, led parents to pull their children out of
school and brought demands for retaliation. Israel's Security Cabinet
last week rejected calls for a large-scale Gaza invasion but threatened
to cut water, electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and has mounted broad operations
several times in the past, with casualties on both sides, but the rocket
attacks always resumed after a pullout.
Israel continues to carry out routine limited incursions into Gaza to
root out the rocket launchers, but the crude rockets continue to baffle
the high-tech military.
Islamic Jihad, a small radical militant group, has claimed responsibility
for the recent rocket attacks.
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