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.
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