Homemade rockets wound 7 Palestinians in southern Gaza

Seven Palestinians were wounded early on Monday when militants were firing homemade rockets at Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said.

Four Palestinian militants sustained serious injuries while two other civilians were lightly wounded, they said.

According to the eyewitnesses, the accident took place near the neighborhood of Al-Amal, north of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis which is close to the Israeli settlement of Gani Tal.

Similar accidents have repeated lately in several areas of Gaza. The homemade rockets containing organic materials and chemical fertilizers are liable to exploding accidentally and pose danger to those people in the area, especially in hot weather.

In another accident, a Fatah militant died of his wounds on Monday after he tried to fire a homemade rocket at a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip.

In the meantime, Palestinian Interior Ministry called on all the Palestinian parties, factions and militant groups to be committed to the truce with Israel and stop using dangerous explosives.

The Palestinian police and security apparatus found Sunday night 25 kg of explosives near the settlement of Doggett in the northern Gaza Strip, the ministry said in a statement.

Source: Xinhua