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IAF bombs Gaza target after 8 mortar shells fired at Israel
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: IDF, Israel News, Hamas, Gaza

The Israel Air Force on Tuesday evening bombed a target in the Gaza Strip used earlier in the day Palestinian militants to fire eight mortar shells at Israel.

Militants on Tuesday also opened fire at Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Gaza in two separate incidents, in the first violation of a shaky cease-fire in the coastal strip that ended Israel's 3-week offensive against Hamas.

No IDF soldiers were wounded in the incidents, one of which took place near the Kissufim border crossing, and the other in the center of the Strip. In one of the incidents the troops returned fire.
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Also Tuesday, Gaza militants in the Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell toward Israel, the IDF said. But police reported that it looked like the projectile never reached Israel.

Earlier in the day, Israeli security forces backtracked on an earlier report of a firing. The military said a warning siren that went off was a false alarm.

On Monday, IDF officers supervising the pullout of troops from Gaza were working to have the last soldier leave Gaza on Tuesday before the inauguration of United States President Barack Obama at around 6 P.M. Israel time.

The IDF was expected Tuesday to begin discharging many of the reservists drafted two weeks ago under emergency call-up orders.

Troops began significantly reducing their presence in the Gaza Strip as early as Saturday night, immediately after Israel declared the unilateral cease-fire which put an end to Operation Cast Lead. The troops took key positions around the Strip, poised to reenter if and when ordered.

IDF sources said that the peace was maintained despite alleged orders by Hamas leadership in Damascus for their operatives in Gaza to carry out attacks against IDF forces. Israeli officers said that the militants had chosen to ignore the order.

Hamas militants on Monday took steps to avoid violating the cease-fire, not firing any rockets into Israel and not attacking the IDF troops still stationed in the Strip.

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      1.   Keep the sick fish to swap for Shalit.Keep them as long as.. 02:37  |  Alan SA 20/01/09
      2.   Egypt halting smuggling ! ! ! ? ? ? 03:02  |  Joseph.E 20/01/09
      3.   Be Proud ... Be very Proud!!! 03:47  |  JV 20/01/09
      4.   Why are they so scared of Obama? 03:53  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 20/01/09
      5.   600 ROCKETS ! that`s a LOT... 04:02  |  PADDY 20/01/09
      6.   MEANWHILE WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SCHALIT?? 04:13  |  dav zee 20/01/09
      7.   The math doesn`t work out 04:50  |  Jonas 20/01/09
      8.   Hamas Lives to Fight Another Day 05:22  |  Rick 20/01/09
      9.   Truce maintained in Gaza 05:27  |  Ezra 20/01/09
      10.   warm air 05:34  |  annonymous 20/01/09
      11.   Jonas 06:26  |  Harold 20/01/09
      12.   The Last Incursion 07:15  |  crlman 20/01/09
      13.   Echoing Harold @#10,...Jonas, you`re a fool!!! 07:19  |  Akiva P 20/01/09
      14.   ISRAEL ENDANGERING TRUCE WITH ARRESTS 07:26  |  Arik Silverman 20/01/09
      15.   #6 - Dav zee regarding Shalit 07:28  |  Maurice 20/01/09
      16.   500 "militants" killed or 48? 07:30  |  Arik Silverman 20/01/09
      17.   wow harold very naive 08:17  |  himb 20/01/09
      18.   Egypt keeps the siege, himb, dont b naive 08:44  |  Natan 20/01/09
      19.   Israel besieged Gaza for a good reason.The terror. 08:47  |  Pavel 20/01/09
      20.   17 natan 10:03  |  t 20/01/09
      21.   #16 Silverman 12:14  |  H 20/01/09
      22.   To #16 12:15  |  Maury 20/01/09
      23.   #20, learn your history 12:17  |  Warren 20/01/09
      24.   to #17 12:29  |  Warren 20/01/09
      25.   To warren- can you prove what you write? 13:09  |  T 20/01/09
      26.   EGYPT STILL KEEPS THE GAZA SIEGE 13:11  |  laura 20/01/09
      27.   Hamas clearly can control IJ and Fatah 13:25  |  Mark Lincoln 20/01/09
      28.   So the shooting dead of a farmer in Gaza 14:16  |  Chris Linthwaite 20/01/09
      29.   Hang on. Who shot first? What about the Pal farmer killed? 14:25  |  Michael 20/01/09
      30.   80% tunnels destroyed-leaves 50 still operating 14:25  |  kibbutznik 20/01/09
      31.   Next time "no more Mr. Nice Guy" 14:34  |  armchair general 20/01/09
      32.   What is this "militants", call them what they are TERRORISTS! 14:36  |  Harvey 20/01/09
      33.   Truce violations 15:15  |  Luke 20/01/09
      34.   so, killing a farmer 15:45  |  lev 20/01/09
      35.   You call that a slaughter 16:38  |  Gab 20/01/09
      36.   Thoroughly deterred? 16:41  |  Mark Lincoln 20/01/09
      37.   Turn worlds focus to importance of Shalit by resuming fire 16:47  |  bernard ross 20/01/09
      38.   To "Jonas" 16:47  |  andreas 20/01/09
      39.   Rabbi Yaov Lazarus# scared of Obama???? 17:21  |  Gabriel 20/01/09
      40.   Truce violation 17:23  |  Wes 20/01/09
      41.   #16 - Ark Silverman 17:27  |  MichaelF 20/01/09
      42.   Farmer?? 17:35  |  The Mik 20/01/09
      43.   #7 Jonas....don`t forget the few hundred Fatah 17:53  |  Lynn 20/01/09
      44.   Hit back 18:10  |  Brod 20/01/09
      45.   Who does Terrorism best?? 18:19  |  Neutered Observer 20/01/09
      46.   #500 PADDY, you left out something, a ZERO 18:22  |  *BEN JABO 20/01/09
      47.   #7 Jonas - Since you want to place blame 18:25  |  *BEN JABO 20/01/09
      48.   #29 Michael UK - Pay attention 18:27  |  *BEN JABO 20/01/09
      49.   Laura - what are you babbling about? 18:54  |  Mark Lincoln 20/01/09
      50.   idf troops in gaza come under fire in first truce violation 19:14  |  debra 20/01/09
      51.   idf troops come under fire in first truce violation 19:17  |  debra 20/01/09
      52.   pals broke the cease fire. 19:25  |  Adrian de Klerk 20/01/09
      53.   To: Jonas 20:05  |  Angel 20/01/09
      54.   So much for the Deterrence Theory 20:11  |  Mark Lincoln 20/01/09
      55.   Arik Silverman 20:16  |  Mark Lincoln 20/01/09
      56.   To # 32 - Terrorists against the Briton 20:21  |  Ed 20/01/09
      57.   "Wacking the mole"..let`s hope Hamas doesn`t tempt Israel play 20:48  |  r 20/01/09
      58.   Somebody was undeterred? 20:56  |  Natallie Durson 20/01/09
      59.   T T T , Israel! 21:01  |  Ed 20/01/09
      60.   Iran Weapons On Their Way To Gaza 21:07  |  Bill Foonman 20/01/09
      61.   Swift response to attacks 21:16  |  Brod 20/01/09
      62.   "A job worth doing, is worth doing well." 21:31  |  February 10, 2009 20/01/09
      63.   Don`t fire back Israel, these whiners don`t like it 21:33  |  x-ray 20/01/09
      64.   To: Ed (location undisclosed) 21:56  |  Angel 20/01/09
      65.   #5 Paddy 22:12  |  Giora 20/01/09
      66.   Barbarism and victory in the after life 22:43  |  allang 20/01/09
      67.   MARK LINCOLN No the clear message is Hamas cannot be trusted. 22:53  |  PETER SM 20/01/09
      68.   Re # 7 The use is not numbers but... 23:13  |  Ines 20/01/09
      69.   re 58 Natty substitute Hamas for Isreal 23:33  |  alan the real one 20/01/09
      70.   Re# 13 Yah.. You are right... What does Hamas .. 23:35  |  Ines 20/01/09
      71.   Date that sentence 23:41  |  Colin Wright 20/01/09
      72.   *BEN JABO - SOMETHING WAS LEFT OUT! 23:41  |  PADDY 20/01/09
      73.   Respond like this EVERY TIME, it is legitimate, be strong 23:43  |  harvey 20/01/09
      74.   PALESTINIAN FARMER KILLED BY ISRAEL 00:08  |  Arik Silverman 21/01/09
      75.   Lincoln the daft 01:17  |  SDHD 21/01/09
      76.   Ceasefire reminds me of Humpty Dumpty 01:50  |  *BEN JABO 21/01/09
      77.   # 66 jewish people perpetrating terror attacks ??? 01:55  |  Ed 21/01/09
      78.   Hamas just doesn`t get it. Do they? It`s over! 02:05  |  JV 21/01/09
      79.   # 11 HAMAS is 100% responsible 02:07  |  Ed 21/01/09
      80.   Very Stupid M. Lincoln 02:34  |  jon 21/01/09
      81.   Ines....you`re right! 02:37  |  Maria 21/01/09
      82.   Disproportionate: 8 mortars-1 target? Bomb 8 targets! 02:52  |  Vittorio 21/01/09
      83.   To: Colin Wright 03:42  |  Angel 21/01/09
      84.   Cease fire violations 14:20  |  Mike 21/01/09
      85.   foolish zionists 18:34  |  muslim 21/01/09
      86.   Answer to #18 18:39  |  muslim 21/01/09
      87.   Hamas treasures their civilians 18:47  |  *BEN JABO 21/01/09
      88.   Pay attention to the headline 20:07  |  Peter 22/01/09
      89.   Warren: Yep, Arafat was horribly corrupt. 21:06  |  AT 23/01/09
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