| A missile fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target Saturday and blew up a car in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, witnesses said. No injuries were reported when the missile struck the car. In four years of Israeli Palestinian fighting, hundreds of Palestinian missiles and mortars have been fired at Jewish settlements in Gaza. On Friday, an Israeli-American woman was killed when a Palestinian mortar hit a home in the settlement of Neve Dekalim. It was the first fatality from such attacks. Israeli troops have frequently raided northern Gaza communities to stop the rocket fire, largely to no avail. |