A rocket fired from the Gaza strip on Thursday one hour after EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton entered the territory has killed a migrant worker of Thai origin in Israel's Negev region. Over 100 rockets have been fired from Gaza over the past year, Israeli media say.
AFP - Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai agricultural worker, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave. The EU's top diplomat, Briton Catherine Ashton, had crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel about an hour before the attack, the first deadly strike from the territory since the end in January 2009 of Israel's Gaza war. An unknown Gaza group, Ansar al-Sunna, claimed responsibility for the attack, launched a day before the international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators was to meet in Moscow to discuss ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks.
AFP - Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Thai agricultural worker, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.
The EU's top diplomat, Briton Catherine Ashton, had crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel about an hour before the attack, the first deadly strike from the territory since the end in January 2009 of Israel's Gaza war.
An unknown Gaza group, Ansar al-Sunna, claimed responsibility for the attack, launched a day before the international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators was to meet in Moscow to discuss ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks.
On her first tour of the Middle East, European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton visited Israel and the West Bank, as Palestinian rioters took to the streets in protests against Israeli settlement expansion plans. Deutsche Welle Israel correspondent Irris Makler explains what this means for EU-Israel relations and the EU's role in the peace process.
