Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel as US President Barack Obama was making his first official visit to the country in four years, police said.

"One exploded in the backyard of a house in Sderot, causing damage and the second landed in a field," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP news agency on Thursday, referring to a town very close to the Gaza border.

As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama visited Sderot, which is frequently targeted by rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.



No group immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, which came as Obama was in Jerusalem.

Obama arrived in Ramallah on Thursday for talks with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Al Jazeera's online producer Gregg Carlstrom, reporting from Ramallah, said a small group of people. made up no more than a few dozen, were demonstrating against Obama at the centre of the city.

"They are being blocked by about twice as many police," our producer said.

It was only the second such rocket attack since the end of a deadly eight-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas in November which ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce that has been almost completely respected.

On February 26, Gaza Strip fighters in fired a single rocket which landed near the southern coastal town of Ashkelon in an attack they said was to protest the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody following interrogation.

During the eight days of bloodshed in November, which cost the lives of 177 Palestinians and six Israelis, the army said 933 rockets hit Israel, while another 421 were intercepted in mid-air by the US-funded Iron Dome air anti-missile system.

Obama visited the vaunted Iron Dome system shortly after arriving in the country on Wednesday afternoon.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/03/201332154848685422.html

For those that will soon start blaming Israel for retaliatory attacks. Please go to the link below.

Rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel

Rockets cause minor damage but no injuries in town of Sderot, Israeli police spokesman says.
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel as US President Barack Obama was making his first official visit to the country in four years, police said.
"One exploded in the backyard of a house in Sderot, causing damage and the second landed in a field," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP news agency on Thursday, referring to a town very close to the Gaza border.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama visited Sderot, which is frequently targeted by rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, which came as Obama was in Jerusalem.
Obama was expected to travel to Ramallah on Thursday morning for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
It was only the second such rocket attack since the end of a deadly eight-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas in November which ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce that has been almost completely respected.
On February 26, Gaza Strip fighters in fired a single rocket which landed near the southern coastal town of Ashkelon in an attack they said was to protest the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody following interrogation.
During the eight days of bloodshed in November, which cost the lives of 177 Palestinians and six Israelis, the army said 933 rockets hit Israel, while another 421 were intercepted in mid-air by the US-funded Iron Dome air anti-missile system.
Obama visited the vaunted Iron Dome system shortly after arriving in the country on Wednesday afternoon.

waitaminute! is this the trend?

This is just sick.

Why fire rockets at helpless civilians? Why won't the Israelis retaliate?

Those who beat the drum of war should also be ready to dance to the tune of death.

[quote][/quote]Gan! gan!_{Gan! gan!}Gan! gan!

Na wa

If anytin hapen to obama E no go easy oh....buy a property in portharcourt:https://www.nairaland.com/bunchyproject/topics

Now that the FLY is eaten the MAN's Wound,no one sees the FLY,but when The MAN now kills the FLY,everyone will be castigating/blaming the man for killing the FLY!

Brace yourselves people! Its waaaarrr!

sauer: waitaminute! is this the trend?

do u mean thread?

Naa wa oooooo

my mb don finish

when will this people give up on destruction of lives and properties? if something bad happen to obama that is when they will know the true meanning of war

why cant they live in peace?

Gaza will be stripped again

Arabs and muslims are allergic to peace....

And the circle of violence continues.

Be rest assured we will strike back appropriately, and wit such fury dat the ME will shiver!



By 'we' I mean Mossad



Am igbo sha...#VexIfYouLike

Thank God it did not hit the President of the united states...The Arab/muslim world would have come up with a CIA theory of deliberately killing OBAMA!!!

Isreal and US need a justification for war against Iran and they will stop at nothing to orchestrating a cause for it. Isreal and US; the two blood sucking,war-thirst deceptive allies.

They always initiate the attack and when isreal retaliates,they and their blood thirsty brothers complain of injustice and unfairness.......Mother Serah and Father Abraham, hope you can see what your impatience is costing us.....

Tempting the US isn't d best for these guys o!

Obama's visit brings nothing to the Palestinians
Just another photo in their album collection of them with him
The rocket attacks are just an act of defiance against Israel not an affront on America