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Rocket fired from Gaza hits building in Israel
JERUSALEM, June 14, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A rocket fired from Gaza on Thursday
hit an empty building in the Israeli border town of Sderot, without causing
casualties, authorities said.
The Israeli army, which said air raid sirens had been triggered in the
south of the country, said a “projectile was fired from the Gaza Strip
towards the town of Sderot”, without giving further details.
The Israeli police confirmed no-one was wounded in the strike, saying the
building was damaged after being hit “with full force”.
A student told Israeli media the rocket had hit the religious school he
attends.
“The rocket fell two metres from where I was standing,” said Shalom Kahlon.
The incident came hours after Israeli warplanes bombed bunkers at a Hamas
base in southern Gaza, causing no casualties, according to a Palestinian
security source.
The strike came after Israeli air defences intercepted a previous rocket
launched from Gaza, the first since hundreds were fired from the enclave in
early May in a flare-up which killed 25 Palestinians and four Israelis.
Israeli authorities on Wednesday announced a ban on fishing off Gaza, in
response to the launching of balloons, fitted with incendiary devices, into
Israeli territory to set fire to farmland.
Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel have fought three wars since 2008.
Opposition leader Benny Gantz, a former army general, said the solution to
“the crisis with Gaza is to attack with a force never used” before.
“Hamas leaders must be in the sights” of the Israeli army, he said on
Facebook.
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