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The Palestinian group Hamas said Friday that fired rockets at Jerusalem, including one against the Israeli Parliament, shortly after air raid sirens sounded in the city.
The Channel 10 TV said three Israeli shells landed in villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but the information had not been officially confirmed nor is it known if there were casualties, Haaretz newspaper reported on its website.
Moreover, earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved a special request to extend Army enlistment of reservists over the 30,000 who gave the green light on Thursday after the fall of Jerusalem and rockets near Tel Aviv, a spokeswoman for the department.
Israel began the recruitment of the first 16,000 reservists, waiting to see how it develops the conflict with Gaza militias.
At least Fajr-5 missile fell on Friday in an unpopulated area of the Jewish settlement of Gush Etsion in occupied West Bank near Jerusalem, local media reported.
According to sources, the projectile, whose launch has taken responsibility for the Islamist movement Hamas, crashed in an uninhabited area of the block of colonies is located southwest of Jerusalem, in the Palestinian occupied territory.
Local media initially amounted to three the number of missiles, but later reduced the figure to a single blast.
The armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas claimed in a brief statement the launch of "rocket" against Jerusalem and said it was a "Qasam M-75", known in military jargon as Fajr, Iranian-made.
Military sources quoted by Israel's Channel 10 said the rockets or had targeted the holy city, where more than half a million Jews and 250,000 Palestinians, something which could not be confirmed.
It also houses the holiest sites of Judaism and Christianity and the third in the hierarchy of Islam.
One minute before the explosions, air raid sirens were heard across the city for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War, although the last time the city was involved in this attack was in 1967, when Israel occupied the eastern part of the city.
The Channel 10 TV said three Israeli shells landed in villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but the information had not been officially confirmed nor is it known if there were casualties, Haaretz newspaper reported on its website.
Moreover, earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved a special request to extend Army enlistment of reservists over the 30,000 who gave the green light on Thursday after the fall of Jerusalem and rockets near Tel Aviv, a spokeswoman for the department.
Israel began the recruitment of the first 16,000 reservists, waiting to see how it develops the conflict with Gaza militias.
At least Fajr-5 missile fell on Friday in an unpopulated area of the Jewish settlement of Gush Etsion in occupied West Bank near Jerusalem, local media reported.
According to sources, the projectile, whose launch has taken responsibility for the Islamist movement Hamas, crashed in an uninhabited area of the block of colonies is located southwest of Jerusalem, in the Palestinian occupied territory.
Local media initially amounted to three the number of missiles, but later reduced the figure to a single blast.
The armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas claimed in a brief statement the launch of "rocket" against Jerusalem and said it was a "Qasam M-75", known in military jargon as Fajr, Iranian-made.
Military sources quoted by Israel's Channel 10 said the rockets or had targeted the holy city, where more than half a million Jews and 250,000 Palestinians, something which could not be confirmed.
It also houses the holiest sites of Judaism and Christianity and the third in the hierarchy of Islam.
One minute before the explosions, air raid sirens were heard across the city for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War, although the last time the city was involved in this attack was in 1967, when Israel occupied the eastern part of the city.
