Brigades 'fire 5 rockets at Israel'

Source : Maan News Agency

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The al-Ansar Brigades says it fired five rockets at Israeli targets on Tuesday in response to an airstrike that killed a 25-year-old Palestinian.

An Israeli military spokeswoman was not immediately familiar with any rockets landing in Israel.

The brigades, affiliated to the al-Ahrar movement, said the rockets were a response to the killing of Haitham al-Mishal and Israeli violations of a truce agreed in November.

"The occupation does not respect the truce nor fulfill its commitments," the group said in a statement. "The truce can go t hell."

Israel said its strike on a motorcycle west of Gaza City early Tuesday targete "a global jihad-affiliated terrorist" involved in an April 17 rocket attack o Eilat.

On Tuesday afternoon, witnesses reported two explosions in Rafah in th southern Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokeswoman said there were n airstrikes in the area.