Israeli Violence threatens Gaza truce
Wednesday, June 25th, 200824/6/08
Three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel, hours after Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the West Bank.Tuesday’s incidents cast doubt over the future of a fragile truce that has been in force in Gaza between Israel and armed Palestinian groups during the last five days.Al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, took responsibility for the rocket attacks which caused sosome damage but no casualties in the Israeli town of Sderot. The rocket attacks followed an Israeli raid into the West Bank town of Nablus earlier during the day. Israeli troops killed the men in an exchange of fire, an Israeli military spokesman said, adding that one of them was a fighter from Islamic Jihad and the other was a “militant”.me damage but no casualties in the Israeli town of Sderot. David Baker, a spokesperson in the Israeli prime minister’s office, said: “Any rocket fire from the Gaza Strip would be a grave violation of the calm.”
