Gaza Strip: Israel attacks tunnels

Published May 1st, 2009 - 12:11 GMT

Israeli warplanes destroyed four smuggling tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Friday in the first air attack in almost eight weeks, locals and the Israeli military said. According to Reuters, sources at the border town of Rafah said there were no casualties.

 

An Israeli army spokesman conveyed the riad was launched after Palestinians fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday which landed on open land.

 

in the last Israeli attack in early March, an Israeli missile killed a Palestinian fighter and injured another as they were preparing to launch a rocket, Israel said.