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Gaza rocket hits Israel: Army
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza which crashed into southern Israel.
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Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket which crashed into southern Israel without causing casualties or damage,a military spokeswoman said.
8220;The rocket exploded in an uninhabited zone of the Eshkol region,8221; she said.
Meanwhile,Gaza-based Palestinians gunmen opened fire with automatic rifles last evening on cars in southern Israel without causing any injuries,police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
8220;The gunfire targetted cars in the Yad Mordechai kibbutz. There was material damage,8221; he added.
An Army spokesman confirmed the shooting and said a building was damaged.
Later an Israeli military spokesman said a retaliatory air raid had been carried out in the Gaza Strip,without giving details.
Tensions regularly flare along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip,with Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state and the Israeli military launching retaliatory air strikes on the Palestinian territory.
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A flare-up in violence in June saw dozens of rockets fired into Israel and 15 Palestinians killed in air strikes,until a return to the tense truce.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted searches at 10 premises associated with the election management company I-PAC in Kolkata and Delhi. The company, founded by election-strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, is currently managing election campaigns of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. West Bengal will go to elections this year.
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