Half of southern Israel Gaza rocket during Obama visit

Illustration. Traces of smoke visible from a rocket which was launched from the northern Gaza Strip. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)

Jerusalem (Reuters)-Two rockets fired by the guerrillas at the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, hit southern Israel at a time when United States President Barack Obama to visit the country, police said.

"One blew up in the backyard of a house in Sderot, causing damage and both landed in the field," said Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, referring to a town very close to the Gaza border, which was visited by Obama on the previous trip in 2008 when he was still a senator.

Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the first visit since the elected President, and is expected to travel to Ramallah on Thursday morning for talks with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.

It was the second rocket attack since the end of a deadly confrontation for eight days between Israel and Hamas fighters in November which ended with a ceasefire that Egypt brokered, and have almost completely respected.

On 26 February, the guerrillas fired a single rocket that landed near the southern coastal town of Ashkelon in an attack they said to protest the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israel custody after questioning.

During the eight days of bloodshed in November, a gobbled up victims of 177 Palestinians and Israel, the military said a rocket hit the Israel 1,071, while the other was intercepted in the air of 421 by anti-missile system, Iron Dome'S U.S.-funded.

Obama visited the Iron Dome system, pride, shortly after arriving in the country on Wednesday afternoon.

Translator: Askan Krisna

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Salafi groups Gaza rocket attacks into Israel:

about what they call the dome of iron (Iron Dome), we affirmed that military engineering they all won't be able to stop torturing them Providence. "

Dubai (Reuters)-a small group of Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel border town Thursday during the visit of U.s. President Barack Obama to the region.

Salafi group called Mujahiddin Magles al-Shoura said in a statement on the Internet, they fired a rocket air defence to show that Israel could not stop an attack on the Jewish State during the visit, reported Reuters.

Police said no casualties but the attack raises a number of damage in Sderot near the Gaza border.

"Responding to a hoax ' Roman dog and war criminals ' about what they call the dome of iron (Iron Dome), we affirmed that military engineering they all won't be able to stop torturing them Providence," said the statement, posted on the news website Ansar al-Mujahideen fighters used by the hardliners.

That statement refers to the US President, who is visiting Israel and the West Bank and calling it in a statement upon arrival in Israel the day before.

Iron Dome is anti-missile defense system Israel intended to ambush the rockets and missiles fired from Gaza.

Magles al-Shoura Mujahiddin previously claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in June 2012 in Israel from Sinai.

The Hamas movement that controls Gaza has tried to regulate against the Salafi armed groups, who support the hard-line and often fired rockets into Israel attempted in defiance of the de facto Palestinian Truce.

Israel and Hamas fighters who took control of the Gaza Strip involved in the eight-day battle in November which killed 175 Palestinians, including more than 100 civilians, as well as six people Israel--four civilians and two soldiers.

The violence that erupted on November 14, with the assassination of Hamas military Commander Ahmed Jaabari by Israel.

During the eight-day operation, Israel's military said it had struck more than 1,500 target, while Gaza fighters firing rockets into Israel, 1,254 421 were ambushed by anti-missile system, Iron Dome.

The agreement of Hamas-Israel truce reached on Wednesday (9/11), a day after shuttling diplomacy conducted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon--who tercoreng by cross-border violence that is increasingly turning out between Israel and the fighters in Gaza.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who spoke at a news conference with Hillary, said in Cairo, the cessation of hostilities the Hamas-Israel went into effect on Wednesday at 19: 00 GMT (Thursday at 02.00 GMT).

The Hamas group took control of Gaza Strip in June 2007 after defeating Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in deadly combat for several days.

Since then the impoverished coastal territory dibloklade by Israel. The Palestinians also became two separate Union territory--the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the West Bank that is under the rule of Abbas. Now that the two camps have been doing reconciliation.

The European Union, Israel and the United States put Hamas to its list of terrorist organizations. (M014)

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