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Qassam fires dozens of rockets and mortar shells on Israeli settlements

Wednesday 6-February-2008

GAZA (PIC)– Al-Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas took the credit for firing 21 homemade rockets and nine mortar shells on Tuesday on Israeli settlements and military posts in retaliation to the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people the latest of which was the killing of seven Palestinian police men in Gaza.

In a communiqué received by the PIC Al-Qassam Brigades stated that its fighters fired immediately after Israeli artillery killed the seven police men 21 Qassam rockets on Israeli military outposts 14 of them hit the Israeli Sderot settlement.

For their part the IOF troops admitted that a number of Qassam rockets fell on Israeli settlements which led to the injury of 10 settlers and caused a state of shock to many others according to the Hebrew Radio.

Other Hebrew media outlets stated that one of Al-Qassam rockets inflicted massive destruction on an Israeli house in Sderot pointing out that the house was only dozens of meters away from a place being visited then by Israeli President Shimon Peres while another senior Israeli official miraculously survived after a rocket hit near his car.

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