By NNN-KUNA,
Gaza : Palestinian brigades continued here Friday launching rockets and mortars against the adjacent southern Israeli towns from across the Palestinian borders.
The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for firing two mortar shells at Nahel Oz military post, located eastern Gaza.
It added that this attack came to mark the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian catastrophe, “Nakba,” and the continued Israeli aggression in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestine Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing two “Quds” rockets to the north of Gaza Strip, and stated that this came in response to the Israeli crimes against Palestinians, promising to continue resistance utill all Palestinian territories were liberated.
An Israeli army spokesman stated that a military aircraft attacked early Friday a number of members of the Palestinian brigades in Beit Hanoon, northern Gaza Strip.
He stated to Israeli radio that a number of them were injured in this attack, while Palestinian medical resources denied the news.
According to him, Nagev was attacked on Thursday with six rockets and four mortars, which resulted in material damage.
Meanwhile, unknown militants bombed early Friday a Christian school in Gaza City, witnesses said.
They added that the militants placed an explosive device by a Christian school in southern Gaza City, and the bombing caused material damage but not loss of life was reported.
In recent months, there has been an increasing number of bombings of internet cafes, women’s beauty parlors, and music shops, but no one has been held responsible for these acts.
In another development, Israel has asked Egypt to incorporate a deal to free its soldier, Gilad Shalit, into Hamas truce talks being mediated by Cairo, according to the Haaretz newspaper on Frirday.
The cease-fire talks will resume over the weekend, Haaretz has learned.
If Egypt agrees, it would mark its return to trying to negotiate Shalit’s release, after a year’s hiatus.
Egypt’s intelligence chief, General Omar Suleiman, will meet a delegation of Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Friday, while the deputy head of Hamas’s Damascus-based political bureau, Moussa Abu Marzook, will travel to Cairo.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will be in Egypt on Sunday, for an international economic conference in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Though Barak has no meeting scheduled with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, he may take the opportunity to discuss the truce with senior Egyptian officials, the newspaper said.