- 13 dec 2010
Israeli forces injure two Palestinians
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Maria 14 dec 2010
2 shot by Israeli forces near Gaza border
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Maria 15 dec 2010
Two Palestinians, including child, wounded in IOF shooting
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Maria 16 dec 2010
Israeli police trash Palestinian store in Jerusalem, break worker's foot
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Maria 17 dec 2010
Palestinians: Navy killed teen
S. African politicians 'beaten up by IDF'
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Maria 18 dec 2010
Israeli tank fire kills four in Gaza
Five killed in Air Force strike
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Maria 19 dec 2010
4 mortar shells hit south; no injuries
Mortars hit open areas in western Negev, south of Ashkelon day after IDF kills five terrorists in Gaza.
Four mortar shells landed south of Ashkelon and in the western Negev on Sunday evening. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Two of the mortars hit an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council. The other two were fired from the northern Gaza Strip about two hours later, and hit an open area in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council.
On Saturday night, the Israel Air Force bombed a rocket launching cell in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, as it was preparing to fire rockets towards Israel. Palestinians reported that all five cell members were killed.
The five were affiliated with the Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees. A Hamas website reported that an Israeli UAV bombed the activists in an agricultural area. According to Palestinian reports, dozens of civilians gathered at the scene of the incident and ambulances evacuated the bodies to a nearby hospital.
On Friday evening, Palestinian sources said a 15-year-old boy had drowned to death near the Rafah shore after his fishing boat was shot at by Navy forces. The IDF Spokesman's office said it was not familiar with the incident.
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Maria 20 dec 2010
Armed groups in Gaza claim attacks on Israel
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees said Monday that it shelled two Israeli military posts on the Gaza-Israel border a day earlier.
The Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement that it shelled a group of tanks with nine mortar shells near Karem Shalom, east of Rafah. Another group fired two mortars on the Abu Safeiyah post east of Al-Bureij."
The brigades said the attack was in response to "Israeli crimes" and affirmed its fighters would not "stand with arms folded in the face of an assassination policy, the latest of which targeted five residents Saturday."
A group affiliated to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it fired three shells at an Israeli military base east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza City.
The National Resistance Brigades said in a statement that the shelling was in retaliation for Sunday's attack. The statement urged other groups to form a united resistance front with one political agenda in order to respond to the crimes committed by occupation and to free Palestinian resistance from disagreement.
Israel's army said Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired seven mortar shells into southern Israel on Monday but they fell on open ground, causing no casualties.
Two mortar rounds were fired at Israel on Sunday, hours after Israeli warplanes Saturday night hit central Gaza, killing five militants as they were about to launch a rocket attack, according to the army and witnesses.
The airstrike was one of the deadliest since Israel's 22-day war against Gaza's Hamas rulers, codenamed Operation Cast Lead, which began at the end of December 2008 and cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
Since Operation Cast Lead, the number of rocket attacks has dropped considerably, but the Israeli army says more than 200 rockets or shells, have been fired this year.
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Group claims new mortar attack on Israeli target
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees said it launched an attack on Israeli targets Monday.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said it fired 10 mortar shells at a military site east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The brigades said in a statement that its unit returned safely to base and that the afternoon attack was in response to Sunday's airstrike.
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Maria 21 dec 2010
Two militant groups claim single projectile launch
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The night after Monday evening air strikes killed two in the Gaza Strip, two different militant groups claimed to have launched a single projectile which Israeli officials said landed in the Western Negev on Tuesday morning.
A statement from the military group called Jaish Al-Islam (Army of Islam) sent to Ma'an shortly before 10 a.m. on Tuesday said its fighters launched a homemade projectile toward the Western Negev, in Israel.
Two hours later, the military wing affiliated to Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said its fighters were behind the launch.
Where the Al-Aqsa group said the shelling was in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli "crimes" against the Palestinian people, a statement from Jaish Al-Islam said the attack was in retaliation for the assassinations of Islam Yassin and Muhammad An-Nimnim, http://bit.ly/fsr03q killed by Israeli forces by what appeared to be a car bomb which blasted their car in central Gaza City on 3 November.
At the time, Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich of the Israeli military told DPA, "I don't want to tell you exactly how this happened, but he was targeted with a bomb."
The projectile, Israeli media reports said, landed near the Ashkelon beach, seven meters from a kindergarten. Reports from the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said one 14-year-old girl was lightly injured and taken to hospital, while other reports said two were treated for shock.
Military officials say some 13 rockets have struck the western Negev region over the last two days.
Jaish Al-Islam is a militant group affiliated with the salafist movement in the coastal enclave.
Overnight Israeli warplanes targeted at least four areas in Gaza, injuring two Palestinian fighters, Palestinian and Israeli officials said early Tuesday.
The raids came after Palestinian combatants fired nine mortar shells into southern Israel on Monday that fell on open ground and caused no casualties, the army said.
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Gaza anti-tank missile penetrated IDF tank, Ashkenazi reveals
IDF chief tells Knesset a Kornet missile was fired more than two weeks ago at tank on the Gaza border, penetrated its outer shell, but did not explode.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi revealed on Tuesday that an anti-tank missile was fired more than two weeks ago at an Israeli tank on the Gaza border and penetrated its outer shell.
"On December 6 a Kornet rocket was fired for the first time and hit an IDF tank and penetrated its outer shell," Ashkenazi told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, revealing that the Kornet missile penetrated the tank exterior shell but failed to explode inside it.
"It is a heavy missile and one of the most dangerous in the region, which was also fired toward the IDF during the Lebanon War," Ashkenazi added.
"We hold the Hamas as the party responsible in the Gaza Strip," Ashkenazi said, holding the militant group which took over the coastal enclave in a bloody coup in 2007 as responsible for firing the anti-tank missile.
Ashkenazi also stressed that Israel's advanced anti-rocket system, the Iron Dome that has been in development and backed by United States funding, was not a "full proof solution" to rocket fire from Gaza.
Ashkenazi spoke shortly after a Qassam rocket struck the Ashkelon beach region, exploding in an open field near a kindergarten and lightly wounding a teenage girl in a nearby building.
Responsibility for Tuesday's rocket attack was claimed by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, which has the same "global jihad" ideology as the Al- Qaida movement. It said it was responding "to the massacres committed by the Zionist enemy."
Some 13 rockets have struck the western Negev over the last two days.
The Israel Air Force carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight Monday in response to the increasing number of attacks emanating from Gaza.
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Qassam strikes near Ashkelon school, lightly wounding Israeli girl
Rocket explodes seven meters from a kindergarten; girl treated on the spot by Magen David Adom paramedics then taken to hospital, two other people suffer from shock; two Palestinians wounded in earlier IDF strike on Gaza.
A Qassam rocket struck the Ashkelon beach early Tuesday, exploding in an open field near a kindergarten and lightly wounded a girl on her way to school.
The girl was treated on the spot by Magen David Adom paramedics and then taken to hospital for further evaluation; two other people were suffering from shock. A number of buildings in the area sustained light damage.
There were about 10 children in the kindergarten when the rocket struck about seven meters away, said a teacher. "I quickly got out of my car, ignoring the siren to help the children. I gathered them together and kept them busy."
Residents of the area had felt that a strike could be imminent recently, she said. "The doors are always open and the children are not allowed to leave the area," she said. "We are very strict about that."
Some 13 rockets have struck the western Negev over the last two days; none of those caused any casualties. The last injuries sustained from an attack in Israel was two weeks ago, when a man was wounded by a mortar shell that struck the Eshkol Regional Council.
The Israel Air Force carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday in response to the rise in attack.
Two militants were wounded in the strikes, which hit a Hamas training camp, smuggling tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt, and other unpopulated areas, Hamas officials and witnesses said.
"The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for maintaining the calm in the Gaza Strip and for any terrorist activity emanating from it. The IDF will also continue to respond harshly to any attempt to use terror against the State of Israel," said the Israel Defense Forces in a statement.
Hamas leaders have tried to curb rocket fire at Israel, but smaller groups continue to carry out such attacks.
On Saturday, an Israeli air strike in Gaza killed five militants from a rocket launching squad.
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Maria 23 dec 2010
PA: Hamas cell planned attack on Ramallah
RAMALLAH (AFP) -- Palestinian police said Wednesday they uncovered a Ramallah-based Hamas cell that stockpiled weapons intended for use against Palestinian security forces.
Major General Adnan Damiri, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority's security forces, said the cell had been discovered two months ago.
"We seized their weapons, which were intended to target the (Palestinian) national authority and were not intended for use against Israel," he said.
Damiri declined to say how many people were involved in the group, but said a raid on their facilities seized "four rocket launchers and 17 rocket-propelled grenades."
In November, the Palestinian Authority said it had arrested members of a Hamas cell in Nablus, which it said was planning to assassinate the governor of the northern West Bank city.
Damiri accused Hamas of inciting violence against the Palestinian Authority security forces with the goal of weakening Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
"The security establishment considers the actions of Hamas in Gaza and Damascus to be very dangerous... and their language contains a direct call to murder and a direct call to civil war," he said.
Hamas and Fatah have had tense relations for years, and resentment boiled over after the Islamist group won elections in 2006.
A year later, Hamas routed Fatah in bloody fighting in the Gaza Strip and took control of the coastal enclave.
The parties held two rounds of fruitless reconciliation talks in Damascus in September and November this year, with little progress expected in coming months.
On Tuesday, Hamas accused Abbas of undermining the reconciliation process with a wave of arrests in the West Bank.
"The continuing campaign of arrests and torture against members of Hamas in the West Bank proves that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah ignore reconciliation," said Izzat Ar-Rishq, a Hamas politburo member in Damascus, where the group's leadership is based.
Already tense relations between the groups were further frayed this week with the revelation in leaked US diplomatic cables that Fatah asked Israel in 2007 to attack Hamas.
The cables leaked by whistleblower website WikiLeaks detail comments by the head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency, who told US officials that "demoralized" Fatah officials in Gaza Strip had asked for help against Hamas.
"They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they ask us to attack Hamas," Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told US officials. "They are desperate."
He went on to praise his organization's "very good working relationship" with Abbas' security service, which he said shared with the Shin Bet "almost all the intelligence that it collects."
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Maria 24 dec 2010
Armed group says 3 mortars fired at Israel post
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it fired three mortars at an Israeli post east of Al-Bureij refugee camp Thursday.
In a statement, the National Resistance Brigades said the shelling comes in response to Israeli crimes against Palestinians and to affirm the path of resistance is our strategic choice.
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Rocket fired from Gaza; no injuries reported
A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Ashkelon Beach regional council.
A siren was sounded in the area and security forces are working to pinpoint the rocket's landing site. No injuries or damages were reported.
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'Hamas calls on Israel to respect truce'
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar
Hamas has urged Israel to comply with the terms of its ceasefire with the Gaza Strip and stop the aggression against Palestinians in the besieged territory.
Expressing the resistance movement's commitment to its truce with Israel, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar criticized Tel Aviv on Friday for violating the January 2009 treaty, which ended the 22-day Israeli war against Gaza.
"We declare our commitment to respecting the truce between us and the occupier," Zahar said during the Friday prayers in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis adding that "despite the sacrifices, we announce that we continue to respect the truce."
He called on Tel Aviv to reciprocate and "stop incursions [into Gaza], halt killings of Palestinians and lift the deadly blockade" of the coastal sliver.
Zahar's remarks came as Israel has increased its attacks against the Palestinian territory in recent months, killing and wounding many Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of Gaza, said on Wednesday that it has decided to raise the issue of repeated Israeli violations to the UN as it gave rise to the "threat of further aggression against the Palestinians."
Hamas will submit "a complaint to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and all relevant agencies about ... the threat of further aggression against the Palestinians," Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said.
"We will be in contact with several countries to explain the aggressive behavior of the occupation forces and have been in touch with Egyptian officials to discuss these threats," he added.
Since the end of the Gaza war, a large number of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israeli air attacks on the besieged coastal strip. Many Palestinian structures have also been destroyed in the raids.
On Friday, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian shepherd and injured three others, who were collecting debris north of the Gaza Strip.
At least 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Tel Aviv's December 2008-January 2009 war on the Gaza Strip, which inflicted above USD1.6 billion in damages on the Gazan economy.
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Fisherman injured by Israeli fire in northern Gaza
Israel escalates air strikes on Gaza, wounds two in night raids
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Maria 25 dec 2010
Hamas wing takes credit for past attacks
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas' military wing said Saturday that the Israelis were playing with fire by escalating tensions in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said they were observing a previously declared ceasefire with Israel not out of weakness or fear, but to protect lives of Palestinian people and to prevent them from being drawn into a second war.
However, if that war erupts, we will not stand hand-folded; we will fight fiercely, the group's spokesman Abu Ubayda said at a news conference in Gaza City. He highlighted that Israeli threats would not scare Al-Qassam's fighters or deter them. They will instead become stronger and more willing to fight and face any Israeli action to make the Israelis regret it, he said.
The official also claimed responsibility, for the first time, for a series of operations conducted between 2005 and 2010 that killed 15 Israeli soldiers and injured 47. The operations, according to Abu Ubayda, were in the Hebron area near Hagay settlement in the southern West Bank, in Etzion, in mount Sindas and in the Old City of Jerusalem.
He also claimed responsibility for a 2008 attack on a Jewish Yeshiva in Jerusalem which was orchestrated by Alaa Abu Dheim, who shot dead eight students and injured more than 30 others.
Ahmed Al-Jabari, the head of Al-Qassam, had an even more militant message for Israel, saying Hamas would not rest until Israel was ousted from all Palestinian lands and Israelis faced either two choices: "death or departing Palestinian lands."
"Our resistance will continue as long as the Zionists remain," said a letter signed by Jabari, published in a Hamas magazine.
Their comments come a day after a senior political leader of the movement, Mahmoud Zahhar, said Hamas was committed to the truce in effect since the January 2009 end of the 22-day Israeli offensive on the strip aimed at halting rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
But it also comes amid rising tension along Israel's border with the tiny coastal enclave.
Overnight Saturday, Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least two people and knocking out power in a large swathe of the strip.
The strikes came after militants fired a mortar and rocket into Israel on Friday, according to the army, which called the target a "terror center."
A total of 23 mortars and four rockets have been launched at Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip since Sunday, the army said. One of the rockets struck near a kindergarten in a southern Israeli kibbutz, wounding a teenage girl.
On December 18, Israeli warplanes hit central Gaza, killing five militants as they were about to launch a rocket attack, according to the army and witnesses.
While most of the rockets fired have been by other groups, Israel still says it holds Hamas, which rules the strip, responsible for maintaining calm there.
AFP contributed to this report.
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Hamas warns Israel against operations in Gaza Strip
The radical Islamic group Hamas said on Saturday the group was observing a truce with Israel in Gaza but was ready to resume hostilities in response of Israeli attacks.
"There is a truce in effect in the field. It is real if Israel stops its aggression and ends its siege. But if there is any Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip we will respond strongly," said Hamas spokesman Abu Obeideh.
A Hamas senior leader Mahmoud Zahar said on Friday the group had no intention to escalate fighting with Israel and will abide by the ceasefire despite the recent rise in violence.
Gaza's militants fired 30 rockets into south Israel last week, causing damage to property and livestock. Israel Air Force warplanes bombed suspected smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday.
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Hamas commander: Israel will disappear
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeideh
Day after Mahmoud al-Zahar says Islamist group committed to unofficial truce, head of its armed wing says Israel will 'cease to exist and we will have Palestine. Spokesman: We have something that will worry the occupation.
Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas' military wing, said the Palestinians will not give up their struggle until Israel ceases to exist.
In a statement issued Saturday to mark 23 years since the Islamist group was founded, Deif also vowed to release all Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. "We promise to release them and break the (prison) bars despite the occupiers' efforts," he said.
In a direct message to Israel, Deif said, "You will disappear and we will have Palestine. We won't wave a white flag as long as even one Muslim remains."
Ahmed Ja'abri, another top commander in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, issued a statement of his own on a Hamas-affiliated website. "On the anniversary of the war of God's seal (referring to Operation Cast Lead) we say to the enemy that we are willing to face any new Zionist crime," the statement read.
We'll break prison bars.' Deif
"Attempts by the leaders of this entity to deceive and intimidate will only make us more determined to continue the resistance against any invasion or Zionist crime."
Also Saturday, a Hamas spokesman warned that the group is observing a truce with Israel but is also ready for a resumption of hostilities.
"There is a truce in effect in the field. It is real if Israel stops its aggression and ends its siege. But if there is any Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip we will respond strongly," said a masked spokesman for Hamas' armed wing who identified himself as Abu Obeideh.
Speaking at a press conference with three guards, who were all masked and armed, he said the group was ready to repel any future Israeli invasion and hinted at a secret weapon.
"We are completely ready to answer any Israeli aggression," he said. "Our weapons are few compared to those of the Israeli occupation, but we have something that will worry the occupation," he said without giving details.
On Friday Hamas strongman Mahmoud al-Zahar stated that his organization would be committed to a ceasefire if Israel abided by it.
"We are committed to self-restraint as long as there is no oppression and no aggression," he said.
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Hamas threatens Israel with retaliation
Palestinians gather around a destroyed car after an Israeli explosion in Gaza City.
The military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas has warned that any fresh Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip will be met with an unprecedented response.
"There is a truce in effect in the field. It is real if Israel stops its aggression and ends it's siege. But if there is any Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip we will respond strongly," Abu Abida, the spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades told reporters in Gaza on Saturday.
The warning came as more than 100 Palestinians have lost their lives in attacks by Israeli warplanes and ground forces since March. He also said the resistance movement is much stronger than it used to be.
"We are completely ready to answer any Israeli aggression," AFP quoted him as saying.
"Our weapons are few compared to those of the Israeli occupation, but we have something that will worry the occupation," he said without giving any details.
In the latest assault on the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Rafah early Saturday, injuring three Palestinian civilians.
Palestinian officials say Israeli F-16s launched four airstrikes on tunnels beneath Rafah that run under the border with Egypt. The injured have been taken to a local hospital, they said.
The Israeli military has not commented on the airstrikes so far.
Israel has repeatedly attacked Gaza since its 22-day war on the territory last December.
Gazans are forced to bring in vital goods through tunnels under the border with Egypt since the coastal enclave has been under an Israeli siege since 2007.
On December 18, at least five people were killed by an Israeli aerial assault on the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The attack was one of the deadliest carried out by the Israeli military since Tel Aviv's December 2008-January 2009 war on the enclave, which left more than 1,400 dead and inflicted heavy damage -- estimated to be above USD $1.6 billion -- on the coastal area's economy.
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Maria 26 dec 2010
Two Gaza fighters killed in southern Strip
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Maria 28 dec 2010
PFLP fighters say fired on Israeli forces
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Abu Mustafa Ali Brigades, announced Wednesday afternoon that its fighters had opened fire on Israeli soldiers carrying out maintenance work in northern Beit Hanoun.
The armed group said in a statement that it would "stick to the option of resistance and confront the occupation" when it committed crimes against the Palestinian people.
Resistance action, the group said, came as a "natural response to the occupation."
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that soldiers operating in Gaza heard gunfire around noon, but reported no injuries.
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29 dec 2010
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Maria 31 dec 2010
Israel: Gaza projectile lands in south
TEL AVIV (Ma'an) -- Israeli military officials reported Thursday shortly before midnight that a projectile launched from Gaza exploded in an open field in the Ashkelon Regional Council.
Reports said none were injured.
According to Israel's count, more than 40 projectiles from Gaza have been launched in December, prompting an escalation of retaliatory violence, generally in the form of airstrikes hitting alleged Hamas military targets.
The announcement comes one day after reports in the Israeli media saying militant factions in Gaza had agreed to stem the flow of projectiles toward Israel in an effort to prevent an Israeli escalation. Gaza analysts have said they fear a new offensive.
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Shin Bet warns of Hamas attack despite quiet 2010
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- The year 2010 saw the fewest militant attacks against Israel and the least number of casualties since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising a decade ago, the Shin Bet security agency said Thursday.
Despite the announcement, the report added a caution, saying the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers had intensified efforts to smuggle in advanced weapons as they prepare for a future conflict with Israel. Palestinian officials have accused Israel of stepping up its war rhetoric in recent weeks.
"In the last year hundreds of military-grade rockets were smuggled into the Strip (most with a range of 20-40 kilometres, 12-24 miles), about one thousand mortars and tens of anti-tank weapons and tons of raw materials for making explosives," the statement said.
It said most of the weapons came from Iran and were smuggled into Gaza through Sudan and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
The Shin Bet said that nine Israelis were killed in attacks by Palestinian militants in 2010, down from 15 in 2009 and a high of 452 in 2002.
For the second year in a row there were no suicide bombings, the Shin Bet said in a statement.
Despite recent Israeli military reports of an increase in projectile launches toward Israeli targets from Gaza, the report said that over the course of the year 150 rockets and 215 mortars were launched, well down from 569 rockets and 289 mortars in 2009, and 2,048 rockets and 1,668 mortars in 2008, the Shin Bet said.
Over the same period, UN records from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs show 62 Palestinians were killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. Israeli officials claimed just over 20 of those killed were militants. Four of those killed were children.
The same UN records show a total of 252 injured by Israeli military action in Gaza during 2010.
In December 2008 Israel launched its devastating 22-day assault on Gaza in a bid to halt the rocket fire. The conflict killed 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
Ma'an staff writers contributed to this report
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