Palestinian militants fire more homemade rockets at Israel

Several Palestinian militant groups continued firing homemade rockets at Israel, according to separate statements released on Thursday.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for firing a homemade rocket at southern Israel town of Sderot Thursday morning.

In a statement released by the brigades said the rocket, fired from northern Gaza, had wounded three Israelis but there was no clear Israeli confirmation.

The rocket attack came in response to the Israeli attacks in West Bank where three Palestinians were killed over the past three days.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) also launched several rockets into Israel in the past 24 hours, violating a fragile Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire.

Israel and the Palestinians are theoretically observing the truce reached on Nov. 26 in which Palestinian militants stop launching homemade rockets at Israel in return for the halt of Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories.

Israel refused to expand the mutual truce to the West Bank regardless of some Palestinian military groups' threat of dropping out the cease-fire deal if their demand was not met.

Earlier in the morning, an errant Palestinian rocket landed on a house inside Gaza border, wounding two children and causing their pregnant mother to miscarry.

Also on Thursday, medical sources announced that a Palestinian fisherman died due to critical wounds sustained when an Israeli naval boat shot at fishing boats a week ago.

Source: Xinhua