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Rockets hit Israel, Prime Minister Olmert vows 'disproportionate' response
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| Last Edited | kal Feb 01, 2009 03:54pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Sunday, February 1, 2009 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | According to the Israeli media one rocket landed close to two kindergartens but casualties or damage were reported in any of the strikes.
Later on Sunday morning, Israel soldiers exchanged fire with militants near the Kissufim crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported in the incident.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday vowed a "disproportionate" response to the rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave.
"We've said that if there is rocket fire against the south of the country, there will be a disproportionate Israeli response to the fire on the citizens of Israel and its security forces," he said at the weekly cabinet meeting.
On Saturday morning a more powerful Grad rocket struck south of the city of Ashkelon.
The rockets demonstrated the fragility of a cease-fire that ended Israel's devastating Gaza offensive on January 18.
Israel halted the operation after saying its goals had been achieved. But Hamas declared victory and militants have kept up sporadic attacks.
Since the cease-fire, militants have fired rockets into Israel and killed one soldier in a border attack.
Israel has conducted retaliatory strikes and pounded tunnels Hamas uses to smuggle in weapons from Egypt.
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