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Hamas militants say targeting Israeli army sites
Published Wednesday 20/06/2012 (updated) 21/06/2012 15:10
An Israeli police explosives expert inspects the remains of a rocket, fired
by militants in Gaza, that landed in Kibbutz Kissufim outside the central
Gaza Strip on June 20, 2012. (Reuters/ Nir Elias)
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Hamas' armed wing said it fired a barrage of rockets, missiles and mortars at Israeli military targets on Wednesday in response to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said it fired 24 rockets, 10 missiles and nine mortars at Israeli army bases since dawn Wednesday.

"These operations are part of the repelling operations against the (Israeli) occupation assaults on Gaza Strip and West Bank, and as a response for the ongoing aggression against Palestinian people," the brigades said in a statement.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said at least 20 rockets were fired into southern Israel on Wednesday, without causing injuries.

A border policeman was wounded by a rocket on Tuesday night, she said. A rocket fired from Gaza had exploded inside a border police base in south Israel.

Israel has killed eight Palestinians in airstrikes and tank shelling on the Gaza Strip since Monday, including two Hamas militants.

Hamas joined in the hostilities on Tuesday, for the first time in over a year. The Al-Qassam Brigades usually holds its fire under an unofficial truce and Hamas in the past has discouraged smaller militant groups from firing at Israel.

Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for all attacks from the Gaza Strip.

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said Tuesday that Israel's attacks prompted the group's military wing "to take a firm stance" and launch rockets.

The Al-Mujahedin Brigades, the armed wing of the Al-Mujahedin movement, said in a statement that it fired 12 rockets at Israeli targets on Wednesday.

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades -- the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- said it fired two rockets across the border in a joint operation with the Shuhada Al-Aqsa - Karama army.

The Popular Resistance Committees' Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades said it launched seven rockets into Israel and the Abdul Qader Husseini Brigades said it fired a grad rocket toward Ashkelon.

The Al-Ansar brigades, the armed wing of the Al-Ahrar movement, said it fired 11 rockets into Israel on Wednesday afternoon in response to Israeli aggression.
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1 ) JohnWV / United States
20/06/2012 17:28
The UN Human Rights Council investigated and adjudged the Jewish state guilty of violating international laws of war. Illegally besieged and occupied Palestine is allowed to resist and, within limits, kill its occupiers. Doing so is not terrorism or a war crime, e.g. WW2 French Underground. The terrorist is, and always has been, Israel.
2 ) JohnWV / United States
20/06/2012 17:29
Israel, our inseparable ally, is using American attack jets against civilians in besieged Palestinian neighborhoods. Fathers, mothers and children are being killed, splattered actually. The Jews enjoy a kill ratio of near one hundred to one. The Palestinian's response with crude rockets is pathetic. But those rockets do confirm that Palestine will not accept defeat, they “give proof through the night that (their) flag is still there.”
3 ) Sarah / Holland
20/06/2012 18:20
Is Hamas also responsible for the every day attacks coming from Israel? All the demolitions? Kidnappings? Settlerviolence? etc etc. I don't like agression and I'm not a friend of Hamas etc but boy.... My admiration for the Palestinian patience is growing every day. Respect for Palestine!
4 ) Tibi / Tubas
20/06/2012 18:32
Hamas wing is barely even capable of targeting the State of Israel,
since most of their rockets hit nothing but sand in the desert,
and some of their rockets still fall in Gaza, it is a lie/fantasy
of the Hamas wing to say it is "targeting Israeli military sites".

5 ) @ Sarah-3 / USA
20/06/2012 18:39
Your Respect is Misplaced, since:
1- It is NOT "patience" that has Palestinians enduring
the retaliatory Israeli strikes, since they can do nothing else, But
2- It was "patience" that had Israelis enduring 1,000s of
Hamas war crime strikes, targeting civilians for years,
since they could do something else, and it was only when
these crimes reached about 100/day, that Israel said "Enough",
and launched "Operation Cast Lead", to halt Hamas rocket attacks !!!!

6 ) southparkbear / usa
20/06/2012 19:20
I have no problem letting the current situation continue for a long time. Let them hit our open spaces and use targeting their militants. if they hurt anyone in Israel, all bets are off, cast lead is legitimate reponse
7 ) Sarah / Holland
20/06/2012 20:30
@ 5 Hamas didn't start (like always for that matter) Cast Lead. It was Israel, just like in these attacks. I'm not born yesterday, are you? Don't write nonsens if you don't know the facts.
8 ) Brian to JohnWV / Israel
20/06/2012 22:33
"Whether or not attacks actually result in civilian casualties, they are in violation of international law, which also prohibits attacks aimed at spreading terror among the civilian population. The patterns of attacks and statements by members and leaders of Palestinian groups also indicate that they have no qualms about launching attacks against civilians and that they in fact carry out such attacks intending to kill and injure Israeli civilians. Such attacks constitute war crimes." Amnesty
9 ) Colin Wright / USA
20/06/2012 23:29
To @ Sarah #5 'and it was only when these crimes reached about 100/day, that Israel said "Enough", and launched "Operation Cast Lead", to halt Hamas rocket attacks !!!!' You realize this completely reconstructs the actual chain of events. We realize it too, so why do you bother? Is the idea that perpetually repeating the lies, like some sort of incantation, will cause them to become truth?
10 ) Colin Wright / USA
20/06/2012 23:31
To Sarah #7 '@ 5 Hamas didn't start (like always for that matter) Cast Lead. It was Israel, just like in these attacks. I'm not born yesterday, are you? Don't write nonsens if you don't know the facts.' This raises an interesting point. In what sense are pathological liars like Israel supporters aware of facts? Surely they must be on some level -- but what level? Are they aware of 'truth' as a concept? Is it all just whatever they would prefer to believe?
11 ) @ Sarah-7 / USA-5
21/06/2012 15:06
Either you are "born yesterday", or just a liar, as the statistics*,
of Gaza rockets fired at Israeli towns, by year, leading up
to Israel's Operation Cast Lead show !!

Year Rockets
-----------------
2005 401
2006 1,722
2007 1,276
2008 2,048
Operation Cast Lead
2009 566

* http://www.btselem.org/israeli_civilians/qassam_missiles#data
12 ) Carlos / USA
21/06/2012 19:51
I 100% agree with JohnWV / United States. He has hit the nail on the head. israel murders civilians in retaliation for legitimate responses by Hamas to israeli terror.
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