An Israeli helicopter drops flares over the Gaza Strip on January 15, 2009. Israel vowed to strike back at Hamas on Sunday after renewed rocket fire from the Islamists' Gaza stronghold two weeks after the end of a bloody war in the battered Palestinian territory. (AFP/File/Jack Guez)Israel Strikes Gaza After Militant Rocket Fire -- Yahoo News/AP
JERUSALEM – Israel threatened "harsh and disproportionate" retaliation after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shells across the border Sunday and warplanes later bombed the area where Hamas smuggles in weapons from Egypt through tunnels.
The flare-up raised the risk of intensifying violence in the days leading up to Israel's parliamentary elections on Feb. 10.
A late afternoon mortar barrage on the southern Israeli village of Nahal Oz, next to the Gaza border fence, wounded two soldiers and a civilian, the military and rescue services said. Earlier, a rocket landed near a kindergarten, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
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