Today the Islamic Jihad fired 2 rockets into Israel. This was in violation of the Egypt-brokered truce between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
At least two rockets fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have hit the Israeli border town of Sderot, Israeli police have said.
No-one was seriously injured in the first rocket attack since last week's truce in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip
Israel said the attack was a "grave violation" of the ceasefire.
The Islamic Jihad militant group said it carried out the attack to avenge an earlier Israeli raid that killed one of its senior fighters in the West Bank.
Another man was killed in the incident at a university building in the town of Nablus.
Local reports said he was a student, and not a militant. The Israeli army said both men were armed.
The Islamic jihad said that the rockets were launched in response to the IDF’s killing of 2 of their men in the West Bank. Because the brokered truce only included a ceasefire within Gaza this action is not considered to be in violation of the truce (although I’m sure many will have different opinions)
A spokesman for Islamic Jihad accused the Israelis of breaking the ceasefire.
The group had earlier said attacks on its militants in the West Bank could jeopardise the six-day-old truce in the Gaza Strip.
While the West Bank is not covered by the truce, correspondents say incidents like these have put a strain on similar ceasefires in the past.
The Israeli army said the Islamic Jihad member, Tareq Abu Ghali, had been planning a bomb attack and that troops had found weapons and explosives in his rooms.
The official Palestinian news agency said both men had multiple bullet wounds and that one had been shot in the head at close range.
So where does this leave the peace process now.
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