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Five injured in Israel in rocket attack

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TEL AVIV, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - Five people were injured in a rocket attack on an Israeli agricultural area near the country's border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical personnel said.

According to preliminary data, three of the injured are Israelis and another two are Thai nationals working in the area. The Israeli military said the rockets had come from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

An Israeli soldier was also wounded earlier today by a sniper near the Kissufim border crossing in central Gaza.

Israel closed off Gaza border crossings in January this year and imposed restrictions on essential supplies in an attempt to pressure the radical Islamic group Hamas to halt rocket attacks against Israeli border towns. It also launched an attack on the Gaza Strip in early March, killing 120 Palestinians, many of them women and children.

Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S. and some EU states, seized control of the enclave from the pro-presidential Fatah movement in June last year.

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