Gaza Launches Rocket Into Israel, Raising Fears Of New Palestinian Uprising
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Rocket Launched From Gaza In Nov. 2012/Photo by, Israeli Defense Force/Creative Commons
Reuters reports that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant division of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s West Bank Fatah movement said that the rocket attack was a “first response” to the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli prison on Saturday.
"We must resist our enemy by all available means. We stress our commitment to armed struggle against the Zionist enemy,” Reuters reports that the group wrote in an email to journalists.
There were no causalities from the attack, although there has been a growing amount of unrest in the West Bank that Israel fears might lead to another Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.
The rocket marks the end to a truce brokered by Egypt between Palestine and Israel that was in effect since November 21. The truce successfully ended eight days of airstrikes and attacks between Gaza and Israel that killed 175 Palestinians and six Israelis.
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