Hamas arrests rocket squad for first time since truce

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired two rockets at Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israeli troops killed an unarmed infiltrator from the coastal area, straining a fragile truce. The rockets landed in an open area in southern Israel and no one was hurt, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, said it fired the rockets in response to Israeli violations of the June 19 ceasefire, and Israel's killing of one of its members. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who crossed into Israel from Gaza and ignored their calls to stop. Only later, Israeli forces saw that he had not been carrying a weapon, the spokesman said. It was the first fatality along... [read full story]