[R-G] Israeli jets strike Gaza

[Anthony Fenton]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5352695/Israeli-jets-strike-Gaza.html


Israeli jets strike Gaza
Gaza Strip struck after militants fired a rocket into a house in the  
southern city of Sderot.


Last Updated: 12:07AM BST 20 May 2009

Israeli planes bombed the area six times, targeting underground  
tunnels used to smuggle goods into the besieged territory. In other  
raids they targeted armed men belonging to Hamas, according to the  
Islamist group.

Israel says Gaza militants use tunnels under the Egyptian border to  
smuggle weapons into the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli planes also attacked two metal workshops in Gaza, injuring  
two people, according to emergency services. The Israeli army says the  
two workshops were used to make rockets.

Israeli defence forces confirmed the attacks on the tunnels.

The rocket fired earlier on Tuesday caused some damage to the yard of  
the house in Sderot, an Israeli city a few miles from the Gaza border  
which is regularly targeted by Palestinian rocket fire.

The Israeli military says militants have fired more than 200 rockets  
and mortar rounds at Israel since the January 18 end of the 22-day  
military offensive against Gaza which Israel says targeted Hamas, the  
Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers.

More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the operation,  
according to Palestinian data, while 13 Israelis were killed.

Since the end of the war, Israel has launched several air raids in  
response to rocket fire from Gaza.