Palestinians fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel for the first time in two months. No one was hurt in Thursday’s attack, which struck the cemetery in the Negev town of Sderot. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Israeli officials blamed the Popular Resistance Committees, a Gaza terrorist group that spurned an internal Palestinian truce called in mid-February.
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