Palestinian Ahmad Abu Al-Reish Battalions, the military wing of Fatah movement, launched five missiles at two Israeli targets in Gaza on Friday. The group said in a statement that it had fired three missiles targeting Sofa passageway northeast of Rafah city, while launching two other missiles targeting an Israeli air strip east of Gaza. "The missiles which were launched this evening come in retaliation for the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people," the statement added.Palestinian Al-Aqsa Brigades, another military wing of Fatah, said it launched five locally made (Shahab 2) missiles against the Israeli town of Sedort south of Israel.
Meanwhile, an Israeli general ordered his troops to cease military operations in Gaza strip temporarily, after earlier attacks killed and injured a number of civilian Palestinians. The order to halt the attack came after an Israeli gunboat fired several shots against Palestinians on a beach north of Gaza city. "The Israeli warship killed many Palestinians, among them women and children," a Palestinian source said. An Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Israeli army has apologized to the Palestinian authoruty for the killing of innocent Palestinians.