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Israel to shut Gaza border crossings following Qassam strike
By Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
Tags: Israel, Qassam, Sderot, Gaza

Israel announced Monday it would shut its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack earlier in the day which further strained a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants.

The Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, which went into effect on June 19, has dramatically reduced the number of such rocket strikes on southern Israeli communities.

The rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday struck near the center of Sderot, a town in southern Israel often targeted by militants, causing no damage or injuries, police sources said. The strike came two days after Gaza militants fired a rocket into an open area in the western Negev, on Saturday, also causing no injuries.
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The Defense Ministry issued a statement later Monday saying that the border crossings between Israel and the Hamas-controlled territory would be closed on Tuesday in response to the attack.

No Palestinian group claimed responsibility for firing the rocket.

Israel has closed the crossings twice since the ceasefire went into effect, both times in response to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, in violation of the truce terms.

Raed Fattouh, a Palestinian official who coordinates the delivery of supplies into the coastal enclave, said he was notified by Israeli authorities that no goods would enter Gaza on Tuesday because of the attack.

Israel sharply cut the supply of goods into the Gaza Strip a year ago after Hamas seized the territory from forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas' more secular Fatah faction.

Meanwhile Monday, three Palestinians were crushed to death when an arms smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed near the Rafah border crossing. Six Palestinians are still missing.

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