Wednesday, 31 December 2008Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian military groups in the Gaza Strip continued to launch projectiles towards Israeli towns on Tuesday in retaliation for the Israeli air strikes that have now claimed 368 lives.
Al-Qassam
Hamas’ Brigades reported to Ma’an that they fired a number of projectiles at the Israeli town of Ashdod Tuesday morning.
Al-Quds Brigades
Islamic Jihad’s Brigades reported that they fired three homemade projectiles at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, and two more at Sderot.
An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades
The Popular Resistance Committees Brigades said their fighters launched five mortar shells at the Israeli military post of Nahal ‘Oz and earlier projectiles towards Ashdod.
“Eagles of Palestine”
A previously unknown military group calling themselves the “Eagles of Palestine” claimed to have fired two projectiles at Sderot.
NRB
The military wing affiliated to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the National Resistance Brigades, claimed to have launched a homemade projectile at Ashkelon.
PRC
The Popular Resistance Committees claimed the shelling at Nahel Oz, Tuesday morning.
Injuries
Four Israelis were injured as a homemade projectile landed in the Israeli town of Sderot in the western Negev.
According to Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom, one of the four injured sustained scrapes to the face from projectile shrapnel, while another three suffered from shock.
On Monday night, an Israeli soldier and a woman were killed and 34 injured, including three seriously, as a result of a barrage of Grad missiles and mortar shells, which hit Ashdod and the western Negev.
One of the dead was a soldier, killed near the border wall in northern Gaza, and the second was a civilian woman who died in an attack on Ashdod.
An additional 34 Israelis were injured in the attacks, and were taken to nearby hospitals. Medical sources said three are seriously injured.
In Ashkelon the attacks cut power to the city overnight.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Ma'an News
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