Israeli forces fires into Gaza farmland


The Israeli army on Saturday fired into agricultural fields in the southern and northern Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses have said.Israeli forces stationed on the strip's southeastern border fired at farmland on the outskirts of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, causing minor damage, eyewitnesses said.Israeli forces also fired at farmland on the outskirts of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the witnesses.No casualties were reported.The Israeli army has not issued a comment on the incident.Israel has conducted several limited incursions into the coastal strip since the signing of an August cease-fire deal with Palestinian factions.The cease-fire agreement ended a devastating, seven-week-long Israeli military onslaught on the coastal enclave.The offensive, which lasted from July 7 to August 26 of last year, left 2,160 Palestinians dead-the vast majority of them civilians-and some 11,000 injured.