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22 rockets hit Israel on Friday

On backdrop of reports on significant progress ahead of ceasefire, eight rockets fired at south Friday evening. One lands inside kibbutz; no injuries reported

Rocket fire continues despite talks on ceasefire: Eight rockets were fired Friday evening from the Gaza Strip into Israel. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

 

The latest barrage included three Qassam rockets which landed in open areas in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.

 

Additional rockets landed in the evening hours in the Sha'ar Hanegev and Eshkol regional council. One landed inside a kibbutz, without causing injuries or damage.

 

At least 22 rockets were fired at Israel on Friday. One person was moderately injured and another was lightly wounded when a rocket hit a house in Ashdod. Three people were lightly hurt in the town of Kiryat Gat.

 

Palestinian sources reported that 14 people had been killed by the Israel Defense Forces in two separate incidents.

 

Ten people were killed in the Sajaiyeh neighborhood, and four others – all relatives of a Palestinian doctor who has worked for years in Israeli hospitals – were killed by a tank shell in the Jabalya neighborhood. Three of the Palestinians injured in the second incident were evacuated to Israeli hospitals in moderate to serious conditions.

 

Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's Security-Diplomatic Bureau, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's diplomatic advisor, Shalom Turgeman, returned from meetings in Cairo on Friday evening and reported of significant progress made in the talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

 

Cabinet ministers are expected to meet Saturday afternoon to approve the truce draft, according to which IDF forces will remain in Gaza for the time being.

 

Also Friday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a deal aimed at preventing the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into the Strip.

 


פרסום ראשון: 01.17.09, 07:11
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