Hamas denies firing deadly rockets that hit Jordanian and Israeli ports

Damascus:  The militant Palestinian group Hamas is blaming Israel for this week's rocket barrage that targeted the Israeli resort of Eilat and Jordan's Aqaba port.

An Egyptian official had said the rockets were fired by Hamas from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

The Soviet-style Grad rockets crashed into the sea near Eilat and killed a taxi driver in Aqaba on Monday, in the second such attack this year. Hamas has denied it fired the projectiles.

Sami Khater from Hamas' Damascus-based political bureau said on Saturday the group had "no interest" in firing the rockets and even ruled out that they had come from Egyptian territory.

Khater says Israel may have fired the rockets to have a pretext to launch new attacks on Palestinians.