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More rockets fired at Israel
Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit a factory in the Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday, wounding one person, and the Israelis pressed ahead with their offensive in the territory.
- AP
- Published: 23:34 May 3, 2009
Gaza City: Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit a factory in the Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday, wounding one person, and the Israelis pressed ahead with their offensive in the territory.
Hamas took responsibility for firing rockets toward Israel at about the same time Sderot was hit near the Israeli-Gaza border.
Palestinian officials said they have not received a response to their demand that Israel guarantee that it will free women, children and long-serving Palestinian prisoners before an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza fighters is released.
Dr. Salah Bardawil, a senior Hamas official, said Israel's refusal to guarantee that it would release any Palestinian prisoners if the soldier were freed had created a stalemate.
In airstrikes early yesterday, Israeli aircraft destroyed a house belonging to a fighter in Gaza City, after warning the residents to leave.
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