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Gaza rockets hit Israel despite unilateral ceasefire
Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:13am EST
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched rockets into southern Israel on Sunday in defiance of the unilateral ceasefire that Israel declared hours earlier and which Hamas pledged to ignore.
"At least five rockets were launched and four hit in open areas near (the Israeli town of) Sderot," an Israeli military spokesman said, later announcing that aircraft attacked the site where the salvoes were fired.
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces near the Gazan town of Khan Younis after mortar bombs were fired from the area, medical workers said, identifying him as a civilian.
He was the first fatality on either side of the frontier since Israel halted its 22-day-old Gaza offensive at 2 a.m. (0000 GMT), saying it had achieved all its objectives but that a troop withdrawal was contingent on Hamas ceasing its fire.
Left unsettled was an issue at the heart of the conflict -- Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip -- and Hamas, though hit hard by the air and ground campaign, remained the de facto force within the coastal enclave.
"The enemy has failed to end the rocket attacks and they are still reaching deep into the Zionist entity," Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said.
The deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians and mounting destruction and hardship in the Gaza Strip brought strong international pressure on Israel to stop its deadliest assaults in the territory in decades.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cited internationally backed understandings with Egypt, Gaza's southern neighbor, on preventing Hamas from rearming through smuggling tunnels as a reason behind Israel's decision to call off its attacks.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak invited European leaders to a hastily called summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday to try to bolster the unilateral truce although Israel had sidestepped Cairo's efforts to achieve a negotiated end to the hostilities with Hamas.
In comments to his cabinet after Sunday's rocket salvoes, Olmert described the ceasefire as fragile and threatened to respond strongly to any Palestinian attack.
"Israeli forces inside the Gaza Strip and many more encircling the Gaza Strip are ... prepared to act in any area in accordance with their commanders' orders if and when the ceasefire violations, such as those that occurred this morning, continue," Olmert said.
Hamas said it would not accept the presence of Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and would "continue to resist them."
RESIDENTS RETURN
Hours after the ceasefire began, Israeli soldiers moved out of the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, an area militants have used as a launching ground for cross-border rocket strikes.
Ambulances picked up more than 40 bodies, most of them gunmen, that had yet to be recovered from the rubble of buildings and open areas in and around Beit Lahiya, Hamas police and health officials said. Continued...
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