Up to 20 Projectiles Fired From Gaza on Tuesday

Ma'an News Agency
January 13, 2009

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/668/up-to-20-projectiles-fired-from-gaza-on-tuesday

About 20 Palestinian homemade projectiles and rockets fell on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Israeli officials reported.

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades claimed responsibility for launching six projectiles and three mortar shells at areas around Gaza.

One homemade projectile hit a house in the city of Ashkelon, on the coast north of Gaza. Another landed near a school in the city, causing damage to the building.

Two projectiles hit open areas in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, two struck Eshkol Regional Council, and two hit near the town of Ofakim. No causalities were reported.

The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed to fired a projectile at a group of Israeli soldiers east of the town of Jabaliya, and fired two mortar shells at Israeli military installations across the border east of the city of Rafah.

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