Rocket fire has continued sporadically with retaliatory air strikes but there are no reports of casualties.
And de-escalation has to begin with, again, an end to rocket fire from Gaza.
Israel retaliated by firing toward the source of the rocket fire, the IDF spokesman said.
We believe that the precipitating factor for the conflict was the rocket fire coming out of Gaza.
Earlier this week, an Israeli woman was killed by rocket fire, the first such fatality this year.
The stated Israel aim is to deal a blow to Hamas and prevent or reduce rocket fire.
Along with the airstrikes, Israel responded to Saturday's rocket fire by closing the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza.
Rocket fire has been rare since an informal cease-fire was reached last November.
If the rocket fire continues, it will have to find a military answer.
The rocket fire is coming from Sadr City, the Shiite enclave mostly controlled by the militia leader and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
No Israelis have been killed this year by the Gaza rocket fire.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has roundly condemned both sides: Hamas for the rocket fire and Israel for its "excessive use of force" in retaliating.
"There's no guarantee even if Hamas is removed from power in Gaza that rocket fire will not continue, " says Nicolas Pelham of the ICG.
Israel said it was responding to Palestinian rocket fire on Tuesday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire.
Others, including Marie's colleague Paul Conroy and French journalist Edith Bouvier, were also badly injured when a house in Homs serving as an informal media centre came under rocket fire.
On Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Mitchell that the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza would hold only if Hamas -- which rules Gaza -- ends weapons smuggling into Gaza and halts rocket fire into Israel.
The rocket-fire came amid heightened tensions following a series of Israeli air strikes on targets in southern Syria on Friday and Sunday.
Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
The UK Foreign Office confirmed the arrests, allegedly linked to plans to fire a rocket at a football stadium.
One of them was determining the exact moment at which an astronaut must fire a rocket booster to enter the moon's gravity field.
Fire this rocket at such an angle and speed that it will slingshot thanks to gravity and end up orbiting the moon, the ultimate definition of a moving target.
It was modified to defend against small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and therefore most of the weaponry such as machine guns and smoke grenade dischargers is on the top of the vehicle (1).
On that morning, Staff Sergeant Romesha and his comrades awakened to an attack by an estimated 300 enemy fighters occupying the high ground on all four sides of the complex, employing concentrated fire from recoilless rifles, rocket propelled grenades, anti-aircraft machine guns, mortars and small-arms fire.
The pulled handle would fire a small rocket through the airplane's roof and release the parachute.
Last year, the company tried to launch its "Falcon 1" rocket, but it caught fire on the way up.
In the exchange the skies filled with the smoke of multiple rocket launchers, artillery and antiaircraft fire.
Later, US and Afghan forces said they had come under sporadic rocket and heavy machine-gun fire from insurgents dug into defensive positions in the area.
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