Het Palestijnse antwoord op Israëls bevestiging van het komende staakt-het-vuren. Hamas wil het staakt-het-vuren vooral niet vanuit een positie van zwakte ingaan, maar er zijn ook aanwijzingen dat extremistische Palestijnse groeperingen proberen het staakt-het-vuren te verhinderen door een grote aanval op Israël uit te voeren. Zo zouden de terroristen van de aan Al Qaida gelinkte Doghmush clan die gisteren zijn gedood, een aanval op Israël aan het voorbereiden zijn.
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50 Qassams, mortars hit Negev, as Israel, Hamas agree to truce
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Last update - 19:07 18/06/2008
50 Qassams, mortars hit Negev, as Israel, Hamas agree to truce
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired some 40 Qassam rockets and 10 mortar shells at the western Negev over the course of Wednesday, just hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary cease-fire deal.
Tensions remained high a day before the truce was to go into effect, with an especially high one-day total of fire from Gaza. No serious injuries
were reported.
One of the Qassams scored a direct hit on a house in the western Negev town on Sderot and several people were treated for shock.
Most of the rockets struck open fields in the western Negev, and one caused light damage to a nearby greenhouse.
Palestinian militants also opened fire on Israel Defense Forces troops operating near the Gaza-Israel border fence, but none were wounded.
Also on Wednesday, the Israel Air Force attacked two Qassam-launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip. There was no word yet of casualties, but the Israel Defense Forces identified hits in both incidents.
At least six Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday in a series of Israel Air Force attacks on the Gaza Strip, just as Israel and Hamas were in the final stages of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal.
Among the dead was Muataz Durmush, the second in command of the militant organization Army of Islam. The other casualties were also apparently members of the group. Muataz' half brother Mumtaz is considered the commander of the Army of Islam, which was involved in the 2006 kidnapping of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
Tensions remained high a day before the truce was to go into effect, with an especially high one-day total of fire from Gaza. No serious injuries
were reported.
One of the Qassams scored a direct hit on a house in the western Negev town on Sderot and several people were treated for shock.
Most of the rockets struck open fields in the western Negev, and one caused light damage to a nearby greenhouse.
Palestinian militants also opened fire on Israel Defense Forces troops operating near the Gaza-Israel border fence, but none were wounded.
Also on Wednesday, the Israel Air Force attacked two Qassam-launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip. There was no word yet of casualties, but the Israel Defense Forces identified hits in both incidents.
At least six Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday in a series of Israel Air Force attacks on the Gaza Strip, just as Israel and Hamas were in the final stages of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal.
Among the dead was Muataz Durmush, the second in command of the militant organization Army of Islam. The other casualties were also apparently members of the group. Muataz' half brother Mumtaz is considered the commander of the Army of Islam, which was involved in the 2006 kidnapping of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
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