Israeli air strike into Gaza after 'ceasefire'

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 03:11

Written by Navid Iqbal

After five militants were killed in an air strike of Israel, Palestinian military force fired rockets into Israel.

In Gaza, one Palestinian was killed by the new air strike of Israel that happened hours after Egypt brokered a ceasefire.

In southern border of Rafah, another individual was injured in the attack. Israel said that the pair was arranging to fire a rocket.

Egypt had required to agent a truce after penalizing attack killed 9 Palestinian militants in Gaza and one Israeli civilian in Ashkelon.

Since a prisoner is exchanged between the sides the violence turns serious.

Earlier October, in a swap for rescuing the captured Israel soldier Gilad Shalit 477 Palestinian prisoners were released.

And it is said in the contract between Israel and Hamas that further 500 Palestinian prisoners are going to be freed later this year.

Jon Donnison said that a rise of violence could expose those releases.

Among the first batch that is released in that swap were members of Islamic Jihad which is said to be involved in the violence on Saturday.

'Bomb maker'

In last attack, witnesses called the dead man as Ahmed Jarghun, a militant of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and AFP news said that the injured person is also a militant of DFLP.

Israeli officials stated that the fire exchange was continuing into Sunday which was start at first at 01:00 GMT or 04:00 GMT.

Micky Rosenfeld, police spokesman said, 12 rockets were fired into Israel at night, the last was fired shortly before 07:00 in local time.

Quoting an Israeli military declaration AP news said that Israeli aircraft embattled six militant places in Gaza overnight.

Within 25 miles of Gaza Israeli officials had announced schools to be closed, not only that colleges and University in Beersheba were also announced closed.

After ceasefire a senior officials of Islamic Jihad said that this group was still dedicated to a ceasefire as long as Israel commits to it.

According to Israel, since Saturday 38 rockets and mortar were fired in southern areas of Israel that killed one person in Ashkelon and four people were injured by those attacks.

According to Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson, nine were killed and 15 people were injured in separate attacks on militant.

And according to Israeli military spokesperson, four attacks were done and the target was Islamic Jihad militants.

The spokesperson stated that the first attack was done in midday local time besieged a cell accountable for a long range attack on Wednesday that blasted inside Israel.