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Last update - 15:24 10/08/2009
Israel vows to respond to every Gaza rocket
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies
Tags: Gaza, Israel news, Qassam 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would respond to every Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, hours after the Israel Air Force planes bombed a tunnel along the border.

The raid was launched in response to Sunday's mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel, an IDF spokeswoman said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the pre-dawn raid in the Palestinian coastal territory, ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement.
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The spokeswoman said the strike targeted a tunnel under the town of Rafah suspected of being used to smuggle explosives into Gaza from Egypt.

Israel has frequently attacked tunnels it says are used to smuggle weapons or materials to build weapons, though such raids have occurred less frequently in the past few months.

On Sunday, Gaza militants fired mortars at a crossing into Israel just as Palestinian patients were being transferred for treatment, a Palestinian official said.

"It's a miracle nobody was hurt," Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said.

Two radical Palestinian groups, the Popular Front and the Democratic Front, said they fired 12 mortars at the Erez crossing. The Israel Defense Forces said about six shells exploded near the Erez crossing as the transfer was in progress.

According to the procedure, the Palestinian patients are brought to the crossing in local ambulances and transferred to Israeli ambulances for their trips to hospitals.

Earlier Sunday, a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an open area adjacent to one of the communities in the Sdot Negev area. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.

This attack was the first such strike in almost a month. The last rocket to hit Israel also struck an open area in the Sdot Negev area.

At the end of May, an 18-year-old Israeli sustained minor wounds when a rocket struck the yard of his home in the Negev town of Sderot. Two other women suffered shock in the same incident.

Last week, the organization Human Rights Watch released a report arguing that Hamas committed war crimes against Israel by besieging it with rockets during the three-week war in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.

The 31-page report focusing on Operation Cast Lead, spotlights Hamas, after Human Rights Watch and similar groups have repeatedly accused Israel of committing war crimes.

"Hamas forces violated the laws of war both by firing rockets deliberately and indiscriminately at Israeli cities and by launching them from populated areas and endangering Gaza civilians," HRW program director Iain Levine said.


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      1.   ISRAEL SHOULD USE THIS INCIDENT TO RECCUPY GAZA , DESTROY HAMAS)) 15:11  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 09/08/09
      2.   A reminder to Israel to maintain the siege 15:35  |  Conroy 09/08/09
      3.   One Qassam Equals Three Destroyed Tunnels 15:41  |  Bill Foonman 09/08/09
      4.   Want this in TA and Jerusalem? Just give them the West Bank 15:43  |  IW 09/08/09
      5.   Another Palestinian war crime, more silence from the left 17:13  |  Joe Sittizen 09/08/09
      6.   I am outraged with this continued violence from the Pals 19:01  |  world observer 09/08/09
      7.   Peace Activists 19:17  |  An Enquiring Mind 09/08/09
      8.   Hello Hamas ! Trying to show there is life after castration? 19:50  |  17 09/08/09
      9.   Hamas keeps firing rockets into Israeli towns using their own ... 20:18  |  B. Gold 09/08/09
      10.   No surprised here 20:53  |  Rory 09/08/09
      11.   Hello Hammas:! How is your post castration life? 21:28  |  17 09/08/09
      12.   the PAL patients should be been turned away 21:30  |  vik 09/08/09
      13.   Im sure BBS will denounce this as Isreali propoganda 21:30  |  Adrian de Klerk 09/08/09
      14.   Sad story 21:31  |  Dave Duncan 09/08/09
      15.   Watch Livni attending 20,000 strong rally 21:38  |  Miron 09/08/09
      16.   A taste of what is to come... 22:05  |  Nephtaly 09/08/09
      17.   Sheer idiocy ,let pal lovers like Maureen Ann receive pal patient 22:08  |  Absolute Sweden 09/08/09
      18.   NO comments here from the usual smug mob.Tells one what they are 22:16  |  PETER SM 09/08/09
      19.   Durson, Linthwaite, Dutch, et al: Nothing to say? 22:29  |  Joe Sittizen 09/08/09
      20.   I can`t hear the AI and HRW condemnations from here 22:34  |  steve from Raleigh 09/08/09
      21.   # 7 Non peace activists. 22:39  |  petra 09/08/09
      22.   17 as long as they have bullets, they `speak volumes" 22:40  |  petra 09/08/09
      23.   Hamas Firing at sick Arab Patients. 22:43  |  The Teacher/Instruct 09/08/09
      24.   #14 Joe Sittizen re Dutch, Linthwaite, Durson etc 22:49  |  H 09/08/09
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      26.   PRES Carter,Justice Goldstone,Bishop Tutu-WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? 03:49  |  PETER SM 10/08/09
      27.   Lets Get Real 04:47  |  RON 10/08/09
      28.   RON forget Israel. 05:20  |  Rita 10/08/09
      29.   Is there any alternative to Peace ? 11:53  |  Yitzaak Levy 10/08/09
      30.   One tunnel is not enough 12:01  |  Nechama 10/08/09
      31.   Are they kidding ? Better not ! 12:46  |  Yitzaak Levy 10/08/09
      32.   with all the angry comments 12:53  |  rm 10/08/09
      33.   "militants" 13:36  |  La Cumparsita 10/08/09
      34.   Be fair 15:07  |  Radouane 10/08/09
      35.   rm 15:42  |  Jasper 10/08/09
      36.   Radouane 16:03  |  Jasper 10/08/09
      37.   Radouane- Be fair ??? 16:05  |  Arnold 10/08/09
      38.   Radouane (#34): be "fair"?? 17:10  |  Rory 10/08/09
      39.   Be fair ...Re#36 17:23  |  Radouane 10/08/09
      40.   WELL.. WORLD OBSERVOR..... 17:24  |  John of Jordan 10/08/09
      41.   Be fair Re#37 17:28  |  Radouane 10/08/09
      42.   radunae, when gazans stop firing mortars 17:47  |  charro 10/08/09
      43.   shooting at dirt is not a response 17:50  |  vik 10/08/09
      44.   Gaza and west bank are part of Israel 17:54  |  charro 10/08/09
      45.   Radoune: your bias & ignorance are showing 18:29  |  Alan 10/08/09
      46.   Israel vows to respond to every Gaza rocket 18:37  |  steve 10/08/09
      47.   Why not just finish it??? 18:52  |  Dave 10/08/09
      48.   Netanyahu Gives Control to Hamas 18:58  |  Pieboy 10/08/09
      49.   Where is the outrage? 19:17  |  Sam 10/08/09
      50.   Shear Frustration 19:45  |  Barel Lazor 10/08/09
      51.   A Taste of What To Come 19:52  |  Barel Lazor 10/08/09
      52.   There must be super strong responce to firing 20:03  |  Yosi 10/08/09
      53.   Re:45-- 20:08  |  Radouane 10/08/09
      54.   Moshiach 20:11  |  The Messenger 10/08/09
      55.   Operation Cast Iron must begin 20:21  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 10/08/09
      56.   I agree with Radouane 21:02  |  Ahmed Habib 10/08/09
      57.   Ahmed Habib you are part of the problem 22:03  |  sam 10/08/09
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      62.   To Name: Radouane @ 53 .. 15:50  |  Jasmine 12/08/09
      63.   To Chaim Ben Kahan@55 Operation cast Iron must begin? 16:31  |  Jasmine 12/08/09
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      65.   Hey Dave@47 INDEED WHY NOT FINISH THE JOB ?? 17:13  |  KATHY 12/08/09
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