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Two Israelis killed in separate rocket attacks
By ICEJ News
12 May 2008
Two Israeli civilians have died in recent days from rocket attacks fired from Gaza. On Monday evening, a 70-year-old Israeli woman was killed when a Kassam rocket crashed into the backyard of a residential home in Yesha – a small community belonging to the Eshkol Regional Council. The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Last Friday evening, a mortar shell killed 48-year-old Jimmy Kedoshim of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas took responsibility for the attack which triggered an escalation in fighting between IDF gunmen and Hamas militants over the weekend, when five Hamas gunmen were killed and six wounded. In response Hamas fired 20 more rockets into the western Negev on Saturday morning, wounding several and causing structural damage.
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