DAR AL HARB - ISRAEL: HAMAS SAYS THAT THE HUDNA IS OVER

Hamas armed wing says truce with Israel over

GAZA CITY - The armed wing of the ruling Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Tuesday said a five-month truce with the Israeli army “no longer exists” after it fired dozens of rockets into the Jewish state.

“The truce no longer exists,” a spokesman for the Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, told AFP.

“It’s the Israeli enemy that has not respected it and now it’s the turn of Palestinian groups,” he said.

The statement came after the group said it had fired nearly 30 rockets and 61 mortars into Israel as the Jewish state marked its 59th anniversary.

It marked the first time that Hamas, the senior partner in the Palestinian coalition cabinet, claimed responsibility for launching rockets into Israel since a November 26 ceasefire took effect between the army and Gaza militants.

Abu Obaida said the firing of Tuesday’s projectiles was a response to the death of nine Palestinians, two teenagers and five militants among them, by Israeli troops over the weekend in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

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