Israeli war jets struck with air-to-ground missiles early Thursday military facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier rockets firing from the enclave into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
Leaders of Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) denied late on Tuesday firing any rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Israeli warplanes early Wednesday launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal to conduct another 72-hour ceasefire starting from Monday at 1:00 a.m. local time, an Israeli official said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Wednesday voiced "outrage" at the placement of rockets in a school administered by the world organization in the Gaza Strip, calling it "unacceptable."
Fresh salvos of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip sent Israelis sprinting for bomb shelters across the country on Thursday as Israel's military offensive on the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave entered its third day.
India Thursday successfully test fired its home-made Pinaka rockets from a military base off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, sources said.
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Thursday, causing no injuries or damage, said a local police spokesperson.
The al-Nusra Front in Lebanon and the Marwan al-Hadidi Brigades claimed responsibility Saturday for rocket attacks on Lebanon's east Bekaa city of Hermel.
Several explosions were heard in the vicinity of Israel's southern city of Eilat, an Israeli police spokesperson told Xinhua on Monday.
Two rockets fell on Monday evening in the vicinity near Israel's southern city of Eilat, Eilat's police confirmed to Xinhua.
Israel is developing a laser- based air defense system for intercepting short-range rockets and other airborne threats, local media reported on Sunday.
The Israel Air Force (IAF) on Sunday morning struck and killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the northern Gaza Strip who was planning to fire rockets at Israel in the near future, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
The Israeli defense forces said two rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel on Monday afternoon, shortly after former prime minister Ariel Sharon was buried in his farm in the vicinity of the enclave.
Two rockets were fired towards southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, no casualties or damages were reported yet, police sources confirmed to Xinhua.
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