Gaza conflict: Militant rocket targets Jerusalem 11-16-2012, 05:28 PM
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Gaza conflict: Militant rocket targets Jerusalem
Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have launched a rocket on Jerusalem - the first time the holy city has been targeted from
Gaza.
Israel Army radio said the missile landed just outside the city - and there are no reported casualties. An earlier missile targeted Tel Aviv.
It comes amid mounting violence, following Israel's killing of Hamas's military chief on Wednesday.
Egypt's leader has vowed to back Gaza in the face of "blatant aggression".
Twenty Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed since Wednesday.
Militants and civilians, including at least five children, were among the Palestinian dead, Palestinian officials said.
They include Hamas's military leader Ahmed Jabari, killed by an Israeli air strike on Wednesday.
Two Israeli women and a man died when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a building in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday,
Israeli officials said.
Before the recent upsurge, Israel had repeatedly carried out air strikes on Gaza, as Palestinian militants fired rockets across the border.
It is not clear if the rocket targeting Jerusalem was the same Iranian-built Fajr-5 launched towards Tel Aviv for the second day on Friday.
The rockets have an estimated range of 75km (45 miles).
Israel's Haaretz newspaper said the rocket landed in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.
Israel Radio said checks were being carried out by police to see if a second rocket fell in the Jerusalem area.
The missile targeting Tel Aviv appears to have done no harm, with police officials quoted variously as saying it had landed in the sea or
in an unpopulated area.
It is the first time Tel Aviv has come under attack since the 1991 Gulf War.
Analysts say it is the first time Gaza militants have deployed such powerful missiles.
An Israeli military spokesman said 550 missiles had been fired into Israel since Wednesday - 184 had been intercepted by its radarprotective system, Iron Dome.
The Israelis had hit more than 600 targets in Gaza, the spokesman said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20365074
I have the assumption that middle east countries are going to have a rough few years. I for one, am totally against this. With soon the intrusion between the US and UK, I can sense WW3.