JERUSALEM ? Israel?s air force carried out three new raids on the Gaza Strip overnight, wounding three people, Palestinian witnesses and medics said on Friday.
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Two adults and a child were hurt when a training camp of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas, was hit in the north, the sources said.
The Israeli army confirmed it had carried out air raids, saying they had targeted three tunnels and an operations base in the central Gaza Strip and a fourth target in the south.
?These objectives were targeted in response to rocket fire (from Gaza) in recent days,? a statement said.
On Thursday night, a rocket was fired at the southern town of Kiryat Gat without causing any harm, the army said.
An Israeli warplane attacked a group suspected of firing the rocket, a military spokeswoman said.
The attack, in Gaza City, was confirmed by witnesses, who said there were no casualties.
Israeli occupation police deployed in force in Jerusalem?s Old City, a spokesman said, after access was limited to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound ahead of the first Friday prayers during Ramadan.
?More than 2,000 police and border guards were deployed in Jerusalem,? said a police spokesman, adding access was blocked to the esplanade for Muslim men under the age of 45.
?Among those aged 45 to 50 years, only the fathers of families with a permanent entry permit for Israel will be allowed to go on the esplanade,? he said.
Access to the complex was also denied for West Bank Palestinians under the age of 35, the spokesman said, claiming the measures were imposed as a precaution due to the risk of violence.
?Forty thousand Palestinians have arrived in Jerusalem since Friday morning to take part in prayers at the esplanade,? said Guy Inbar, a military spokesman.
During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable.
The sprawling esplanade containing the Al-Aqsa mosque and the adjacent Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?s historic Old City is the third holiest site in Islam after Saudi Arabia?s Mecca and Medina.
Palestinian East Jerusalem has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
Source: http://news.maars.net/blog/2011/08/06/israel-raids-gaza-tightens-grip-on-east-jerusalem/
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