Smoke billowing from a building targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Thursday. (AFP)
23:58 15/11/2012
23:58 15/11/2012
BEIRUT, November 15 (RIA Novosti) – The armed wing (click here) of Gaza-based radical Islamic Jihad group took responsibility on Thursday for firing a long-range rocket that landed in the southern suburb of Israeli capital, Tel Aviv.
"The Quds Brigades hit the occupied city of Tel Rabea [Tel Aviv] with a Fajr-5 rocket causing a large explosion to shake the city," the group said in a statement.
Islamic Jihad also threatened that Israel would experience "further surprises so long as the aggression against the Palestinian people continues.”
The Israeli military earlier said two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reached Tel Aviv. One of them exploded in the suburb of Rishon Lezion and the other one – off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea....