JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday began an unusually heavy series of air strikes on Gaza as retaliation for Palestinian rocket attacks, raising the prospect of a new round of bloody struggles after a relative in the past two years.
The Israeli military said his strikes to hit seven different targets in Gaza. Palestinian officials said eight militants were wounded. Then other rocket in the southern Israel easily wounded fired the Palestinians a 16-year-old Israeli girls.
Associated press of A Palestinian man checked the damage of an abandoned house Tuesday was destroyed during an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza overnight.Violence followed the death of five Gaza militant Saturday in the deadliest Israeli attack on the coastal strip in months indicates a trend of escalation. Two years ago, a punishment to bring three weeks invasion left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead, including many civilians was incessant rocket barrages from Gaza Israel.
In another sign of the increasing tensions, the Israeli military Chief, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, strikes that were first target of Gaza said ruling on Tuesday Hamas since the invasion. The military said the attacks in response to triggering of 13 rockets and mortars at Israel were last week.
Appearing before Parliament of foreign and Defense Committee, he described the situation as potentially "fragile and explosive."
Until recently, militant attacks from the Gaza Strip had subsided late 2008 dramatically since Israel's offensive,
Although Hamas, the Islamic militant group, Gaza, rules has limited attacks Israel Israel since then, the Group holds responsible for all attacks from the territory. A number of smaller militant groups continue to rockets and mortars fire.
The military said focus Tuesday's Airstrikes of a weapons factory and smuggling tunnels. It said some of the tunnel designed the militant allowing to infiltrate Israel.
Palestinians, said one the websites hit dairy was a Government-built.
The violence, the tensions in the region resulting added out of the impasse in peace efforts.
In contrast to Hamas, which requires the destruction of Israel, the rival Western-backed Palestinian Government in the West Bank peace talks with Israel remains supported. Supported talks have broken relating to the construction of Jewish settlement in the West Bank the United States.
The Palestinians have a campaign for international recognition of a Palestinian State in the absence of a peace agreement with Israel negotiations to a halt.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that his diplomats actively fight the Palestinian initiative. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel believes, the peace talks are the only way forward.
"The Messenger will speak to get, diplomats and journalists to Israel look", he said.
More reflective Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Israel on Tuesday approved a multi-million dollar-plan to renovate Herodian, a key West Bank historic site, sparking Palestinian objections.
Herodian was a Winter Palace of King Herod, ruler of the Holy land from 37 to 4 b.c. Israel said it about $4.5 million that restore Web site because of its association with Jewish heritage would invest. Herod extends the second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib said West Bank sites are Palestinian heritage, not Israeli, and, that such moves deepen tensions.
Some Bank Web sites, including Herodian, in a list of sites of national cultural heritage in February include Israel. Palestinians protested, and the United States called the list "provocative."
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