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Mortar shell hits Israel-Gaza crossing

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A mortar shell aimed at Israeli army forces has hit a crossing between Gaza and Israel, in the first such incidents in several weeks.

The mortar bomb allegedly fired from the Gaza Strip, landed near the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza on Sunday, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.

She added that the shells landed in Israel without causing injuries or damage.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Homemade rockets and mortars launched from the coastal strip usually target the southern occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlements are located.

The Palestinian side says it will not stop the rocket fire unless Israel lifts its paralyzing closure of the Gaza Strip — in place since June 2007 when the democratically-elected Hamas government took control of the impoverished sliver, where half of its over 1.5-million population is dependent on UN food handouts.

The blockade was even kept in place during the deadly Israeli offensive into Gaza last December, in which nearly 14-hundred Palestinians — mostly women and children — lost their lives.

Israel claims that it launched operation “Cast Lead” to end the firing of rockets from Gaza.

Ever since the end of the 22-day war, the Israeli army has launched several cross border attacks on Gaza, rolling its tanks and bulldozers into the impoverished enclave, opening fire on villagers’ homes and flattening cultivated fields.

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