Mount Israel air strike in Gaza

Israeli warplanes struck at least four times in Gaza on Friday, cause no injuries, but damage to a variety of structures such as the Israeli martial said was space for armaments production or storage.

Palestinian witnesses said that in addition the four strikers on Friday, there had been numerous others that hit the areas used by militants for training, and according to one report, a cheese factory in Gaza City.

A military spokesman said the strike were a reply to a Qassam rocket fired from Gaza hit Ashkelon Thursday region in Israel's middle coast. The spokesman extra that close to 20 rockets or mortars had come from the Gaza Strip during the month of March, and more than 40 since the launch of the year.

In December 2008, Israel launched a three week war with Gaza to stop rocket attacks. Since then, the rockets had mostly stopped, those who were fired have been qualified to groups than Hamas, which controls Gaza.

A working farm from Thailand was killed on 18 March in Israel by a rocket passionate from Gaza. The attack came shortly after arriving in Gaza, the EU's top strange policy official, Catherine Ashton.

The worker, Mane Singueanphon, 30, became the first person to die from the Gaza rocket attacks since January 2009 and the end of the three-week military offensive. The rocket hit an Israeli cooperative farm called Native Haasara, near the border with Gaza.

The day after the attack, Israeli aircraft fired several artillery at Gaza targets, including the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza, and a metal workshop in Gaza City, Hamas security officials said at the time, according to The Associated Press.

Israeli airplane carried out several air strikes in Gaza overnight in clear retaliation against rocket attacks against southern Israeli Israel.The martial said aircraft hit four goals: two weapons-making plants and two weapons-storage.

Gaza, Palestinian coastal enclave has been largely inaccessible since it came under the organize of Hamas, which refused to accept the terms established by the intercontinental group that focuses on the Middle East, the so-called quartet - the United States, European Union, UN and Russia. These conditions include a repudiation of violence, recognition of Israel's right to exist and acceptance of earlier agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.




source:nytimes.com