(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Reports say eight Israelis were wounded, with one in critical condition, after 60 homemade rockets from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israeli towns and communities early Saturday morning.
The rockets were apparently fired in retaliation for the killing of at least 13 Palestinians, including a senior commander, in Israeli aerial and land attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday and early Saturday.
An Israeli military spokesman said that Zohair al-Qaisi, the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), and PRC member Mahmoud Hanini were killed in the attack.
Hanini had been freed from an Israeli jail last year as part of a prisoner swap deal to gain the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Islamic Jihad of Palestine said in a statement issued on Friday that Obeid al-Gharabli, Mohammed Harara, Hazem Qoureqa, and Shadi Seqali of the al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of Islamic Jihad, were killed in a second airstrike on the east side of the city.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the attacks, describing them as barbaric.
Israeli war planes and ground forces have frequently attacked Gaza since the end of the December 2008-January 2009 war on against the coastal strip. Most victims of the attacks were civilians, including women and children.
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