GAZA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Six Israeli citizens of
Sderot town in southern Israel were injured on Sunday night by two homemade
rockets fired from Gaza, Israeli Radio reported.
The report quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying
that two were physically injured and four were treated of panic and shock. They
were taken to the hospital for medical treatment, adding that the rockets also
hit several houses in the town.
A Palestinian militant group called the Brigades of
al-Mujahidin, one the armed wings loyal to Fatah movement, claimed
responsibility for launching two homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at
the Israeli town.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) has also claimed responsibility for attacking the town of Sderot with one
rocket.
The Israeli television channel II reported that the
Israeli government is studying all possible options, including a large-scale
military operations on Gaza militant groups.
Early this month, violence between Israel and Gaza
militant groups broke out in spite of a six-month Egyptian-brokered truce which
came into effect in June 19 between the two sides. The Gaza Strip is ruled by
Islamic Hamas movement.
In response to homemade rockets attacks, the Israeli
army killed 15 Palestinians, most of them Hamas militants, and shut down all
Gaza Strip commercial crossing points on the borders with Israel.
Channel II reported on Sunday night that the
government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would decide on Wednesday what
would be the fate of the fragile truce.
Egyptian sources had earlier revealed that Egypt
informed Israel that Hamas movement is still committed to the truce and wish to
renew it with Israel after Israel threatened to target senior Hamas leaders in
Gaza if rocket attacks go on.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Transportation
Minister Shaul Mofaz on Sunday called for a personal targeted killing policy
against the Hamas government, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to
restore calm in the south of the Jewish state.
Mofaz, who made the call following renewed rocket attacks
on Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, slammed the Israeli leadership and
demanded policy change. Full story
GAZA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas would urge outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to restore calm in
the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a senior Palestinian official said on Sunday.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, an advisor to Abbas, told reporters
that Abbas would ask Olmert in their forthcoming meeting scheduled for Monday in
Jerusalem to maintain an Egyptian-brokered truce declared effective in June
between Israel and Gaza militants. Full story
