2 rockets hit Israeli Red Sea resort

A rocket exploded in Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat early Wednesday causing no casualties, a police spokesman told AFP. "We have one rocket that landed in an open area, close to one of the neighbourhoods" of Eilat, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "Sirens went off. There have been no injuries reported as of yet. Bomb disposal experts are searching the area." Rosenfeld could not say from where the rocket was fired. Some sources claimed the attacks had come from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and not the Gaza Strip. The news comes one day after a Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli gunfire east of El- Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said. They said the 32-year-old was in moderate condition after being shot in the chest. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that "during the day IDF soldiers acted in order to distance several suspects who approached the security fence in the central Gaza Strip." The spokeswoman noted the security fence is "an area in which terrorists plant explosive devices, such as the one that detonated last week on an IDF vehicle." She added the soldiers had not "identified" any hits from their fire. Four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and more than 100 wounded since the November 21 ceasefire between the Jewish state and Gaza's Hamas rulers, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).