Palestinian resistance continues to fire home-made shells at Israeli targets near Gaza

Monday January 12, 2009 14:39 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza continued to target Israeli areas on Monday with homemade shells in response to the ongoing military attacks on Gaza.  

Qassam home-made shells - File 2008

The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters managed to fire at least one Grad Missile at an Israeli military site near the Gaza border, adding that another group of its fighter targeted Israeli tanks in Gaza city with a homemade roadside bomb.  

Meanwhile, Fatah fighters and leftist groups reported that they fired at least five homemade shells at areas in northern Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning.   All groups said that the attacks will continue as long as Israel proceeds with its military operation on the Gaza Strip, which entered its 17th day on Monday.

So far, the Israeli Army has killed 905 Palestinian during its ongoing offensive.   Israeli Army sources told the Israeli online daily Haaretz that the ability of Hamas and other Palestinian groups to fire homemade shells toward Israel have dropped by 50 percent since the Israeli offensive began over two weeks ago.   Palestinian resistance fire has killed 13 Israelis since the offensive started; 10 of which are soldiers.    

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