Two rockets were fired into southern Israel by Gaza militants last Thursday. This put a further strain on a shaky, week-old truce as Israel kept vital Gaza border crossings closed in response. This was the second rocket attack since the cease-fire took effect. It led to a call for retaliation by Israel's Foreign Minister while Palestinians charged that the continued closure of crossing violated terms of the cease-fire.
What about their rocket attacks on Israel? Wouldn't you say that was a violation of the truce? I would. Despite this, Israel dispatched an envoy to Egypt in hopes of negotiating a prisoner swap with Gaza's ruling Islamic Hamas. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mah-moud Abbas' Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing the rockets on thursday.
Although one exploded harmlessly in a field according to the military, they were refusing to disclose where the other landed. A statement from the militant group demanded that Israel halt its military operations in the West Bank. You gotta be kidding!!!!
In separate talks with Israel and Hamas, a truce was hammered out by Egypt over months of separate talks with them and this did not include the West Bank. Then, linking the attack to an Israeli raid in the West Bank, Islamic Jihad fired three rockets at Israel, wounding two people. There will never be peace there as long as the earth exists.
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