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Gaza City,
Palestinian Territories (ANTARA News/AFP) - Hamas security forces in the Gaza
Strip on Saturday detained two members of an Islamist group suspected of firing
rockets at Israel, a source close to the Palestinian group said.
The source
said the militants, who belonged to a Salafist organisation called Al-Tawfid
wal Jihad, were detained in Gaza City by Hamas security forces who suspected
them of being behind rocket attacks on the Jewish state.
On Thursday
night, a rocket was fired at the southern town of Kiryat Gat without causing
any harm, the Israeli army said.
In
response, an Israeli warplane attacked a group suspected of firing the rocket,
a military spokeswoman said.
Israeli
retaliation for attacks from Gaza has focused on targeting bases of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas.
The past
month has seen an increase in rockets and other projectiles fired at Israel
from Gaza after several months of calm following a flare-up in April when an
anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager.
Israel
responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19
Palestinians in the deadliest violence since Israel`s devastating 22-day
assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009.
The
violence raised fears of another offensive, but the Islamist movement Hamas
which rules the Palestinian territory announced on April 10 a return to the
truce that ended Israel`s "Operation Cast Lead."
Editor: B Kunto Wibisono
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