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Qassam hits Negev after IAF strikes Gaza gunmen
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies
Tags: Hamas, Israel News, Gaza, IDF

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A Qassam rocket struck an open area in Sha'ar Hanegev Monday evening, despite separate cease-fire declarations by both Israel and Hamas which ended Israel's three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip last month.
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The rocket caused no injuries or damage.

Earlier Monday, three mortar shells hit the Eshkol region, also causing no injuries or damage.

In response to the mortar attack, the Israel Air Force bombed a car in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical workers reported that one person had been killed in the bombing, and three others were wounded.

The Israel Defense Forces said it targeted gunmen who had fired the mortars.

Witnesses said the air-strike hit the men while they were traveling in a car in the town. Their identities were not immediately known.

Late Sunday, IAF aircraft bombed a Hamas security building in the central Gaza Strip and two other targets in the southern coastal territory, Palestinian witnesses said, also in response to a spate of cross-border rocket fire.

Witnesses in the central Gaza village of Mughraqa said a missile struck after dark in a cluster of caravans that served as a Hamas security headquarters.

They said the site had been evacuated, apparently after Israel telephoned warnings to Palestinians in Gaza to leave any buildings where weapons were located.

The other two strikes were on suspected sites of tunnels along the border with Egypt, Hamas said. Palestinians reported huge explosions as Israeli warplanes dropped bombs on the border, where Hamas operates tunnels to smuggle in weapons, food and other goods.

Before the attack, Israeli aircraft flew over the Gaza-Egypt border, setting off sonic booms, and witnesses said hundreds of people who work in the tunnels there fled, along with residents.

The news comes as Israel's leadership warned Sunday that the response to the rocket attacks from Gaza would be fierce. The disagreements between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, on the one hand, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak over an "arrangement" with Hamas have intensified.

On Sunday Israel suffered the heaviest barrage of rocket and mortar attacks since a unilateral cease-fire went into effect more than two weeks ago.

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      1.   I asked the Defense Minister to instruct the IDF 12:24  |  Palestinian 01/02/09
      2.   these are the old rules of engagement 12:31  |  zalman 01/02/09
      3.   I`ve heard this before 12:47  |  Steven 01/02/09
      4.   Palestinian - You should instruct Hamas to STOP firing there 13:04  |  Ben 01/02/09
      5.   #1 13:11  |  MR 01/02/09
      6.   Palestinian #1: You don`t like military responce?-TELL HAMAS!!!!! 13:12  |  Vittorio 01/02/09
      7.   Write on, Vittorio! 17:42  |  thank you in Israel 01/02/09
      8.   real defeat 19:51  |  ftmo 01/02/09
      9.   NEXT GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL WILL DO WHAT YOU FAILED TO !!!. 19:51  |  Orao Stranka. 01/02/09
      10.   Don`t wanna upset Obama huh? Wrong move. 20:03  |  Jon 01/02/09
      11.   What a punitive state.... 20:15  |  Dutch 01/02/09
      12.   Thankfully after the vote we shall never hear Barak`s name again 20:17  |  Freethinker 01/02/09
      13.   Hamas aggration 20:56  |  Farid 01/02/09
      14.   Heeere`s Johnny Israel! 21:27  |  Clickfool 01/02/09
      15.   Palestinian in Jerusalem 23:13  |  political solution 01/02/09
      16.   What pathetic leaders Hamas are, right Dutch? 23:29  |  Joe Sittizen 01/02/09
      17.   #1 Palestinian 23:32  |  Steven Allsopp 01/02/09
      18.   right 23:33  |  rm 01/02/09
      19.   Philadelphi Route in Torah Code 23:36  |  Itamar Shabtai 01/02/09
      20.   #13 Farid...Livni told Ban Ki Moon 23:58  |  Lynn 01/02/09
      21.   Israel does well to strike 00:42  |  Nechama 02/02/09
      22.   Farid don`t forget 01:23  |  harry 02/02/09
      23.   Livni will be a disaster for Israel 01:30  |  Isaiah 02/02/09
      24.   Lame Response 01:30  |  Ron 02/02/09
      25.   #11 Dutch - Do you have friends? 01:39  |  Love 02/02/09
      26.   UK bows to N. Irish terror 01:52  |  Miguel 02/02/09
      27.   Dutch #11 01:58  |  Jasper 02/02/09
      28.   #11 - Dutch 02:33  |  Maurice 02/02/09
      29.   Can`t be many "Hamas targets" left to strike... 02:55  |  Silvienne 02/02/09
      30.   Israel considers Hamas responsible in Gaza. 03:10  |  Joseph.E 02/02/09
      31.   What truce? 03:23  |  MichaelF 02/02/09
      32.   The strong survives. 03:26  |  Giora 02/02/09
      33.   operation cast lead going cold...terrorists growing bold... 03:30  |  Akiva P 02/02/09
      34.   No justice no peace 03:36  |  Refugee 02/02/09
      35.   # 8 ftmo 03:44  |  Joseph.E 02/02/09
      36.   Israel is so absurd,........ 03:55  |  bernard ross 02/02/09
      37.   Eye for a toenail 04:56  |  Agogo 02/02/09
      38.   Full control - a litmus test of peace 05:52  |  allang 02/02/09
      39.   Agogo,democratically elected Hamas undemocratically killing own 06:14  |  Leon 02/02/09
      40.   Please someone explain... 07:18  |  fred 02/02/09
      41.   Gaza War Failed 07:25  |  Pablo B 02/02/09
      42.   If you destroy infrarstructure how will Hamas control rocket lanc 08:01  |  www.kibush.co.il 02/02/09
      43.   Dmocratically elected terrorist group 08:05  |  Only in Gaza 02/02/09
      44.   Palestinian#1 08:13  |  Tzfonit 02/02/09
      45.   Response to Hamas way too weak 08:30  |  Lorin 02/02/09
      46.   Pablo: Do You Always Speak Nonsense? 08:37  |  Brad 02/02/09
      47.   Fred, Al Aqsa is Acting under the Umbrella 08:58  |  Tzfonit 02/02/09
      48.   "State" of "Israel" 09:12  |  mustafa 02/02/09
      49.   mustafa 48 12:55  |  ChanahS 02/02/09
      50.   open the borders 13:16  |  Gili 02/02/09
      51.   Arabs-Gaza War Crimes Violate UNSC 1860 13:17  |  Joseph.E 02/02/09
      52.   Leon, 13:34  |  Agogo 02/02/09
      53.   Leon, part 2 13:48  |  Agogo 02/02/09
      54.   crush hamas 18:25  |  George Duraisingh 02/02/09
      55.   What part of... 18:44  |  Curt 02/02/09
      56.   #53 Agogo.it is a great Pleasure to read your EM 18:53  |  Mireille 02/02/09
      57.   #50 Gili 19:46  |  Darrell 02/02/09
      58.   Those guys are really deterred 20:33  |  Mark Lincoln 02/02/09
      59.   Silvienne 29 - as long as they continue to 22:02  |  ChanahS 02/02/09
      60.   Refugee 34 -platitudes 22:04  |  ChanahS 02/02/09
      61.   They just don`t learn. 23:55  |  Mark 02/02/09
      62.   Cease Fire??? 00:20  |  Baruch Gold 03/02/09
      63.   #25, Love - do you have a brain? 00:20  |  Silvienne 03/02/09
      64.   ChanahS 00:36  |  Malone 03/02/09
      65.   HR apology to Israel 04:34  |  Rachel in USA 03/02/09
      66.   #1 palis 04:38  |  Rachel in USA 03/02/09
      67.   Agogo 1 05:20  |  Leon 03/02/09
      68.   Agogo 2 05:24  |  Leon 03/02/09
      69.   First destroy the police, then blame Hamas 05:56  |  Tony Price 03/02/09
      70.   Silvienne,Love is right. 06:10  |  Leon 03/02/09
      71.   Destroy HAMAS 13:11  |  jeffrey 03/02/09
      72.   #70, Leon... 19:16  |  Silvienne 03/02/09
      73.   #67, Leon...got it backwards... 19:19  |  Silvienne 03/02/09
      74.   Silvienne #72 01:08  |  Leon 04/02/09
      75.   Leon, cont 02:26  |  Agogo 04/02/09
      76.   Leon, cont 2 02:46  |  Agogo 04/02/09
      77.   Leon, cont 2 02:46  |  Agogo 04/02/09
      78.   Agogo 13:36  |  Leon 04/02/09
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      80.   #79, Ben Jabo....2ND TRY 17:49  |  Silvienne 05/02/09
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