Palestian militants fired home made rockets at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip today, and one landed near the home of Israel's defence minister.
The violent Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for firing three Qassam rockets, including two that hit residential areas in the border town of Sderot, home to Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
Israeli forces also killed three members of an Islamic Jihad rocket members of an Islamic Jihad rocket squad in the military's first ground incursion into Gaza since Israel's pullout from the coastal strip last year.
Today, Islamic Jihad fired three Qassams, two of which landed in a residential area of Sderot.
Israeli media reported that one of the rockets struck a few dozen meters from Peretz' home.
The army declined comment on that report.
Released on: Jun 3, 2006
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