Rockets Hit Jordan, Israel Resorts
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Raven Schneizer in World
Rockets from Egypt’s Sinai hit Israel’s and Jordan’s Red Sea port resorts on Monday, killing a Jordanian civilian and injuring three others, Jordanian and Israeli police said. Sinai is notorious for housing Islamic militants in the past.
According to one Jordanian interior ministry source, one of the four injured when a rocket exploded near a five-star hotel in Aqaba, later died as a result of the injuries.
There were no reports of casualties in the port and holiday resort of Eilat, police said. Aqaba and Eilat lie on the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba, part of the Red Sea, with Sinai to the west and south of Eilat.
Jordan’s Minister of State Ali al-Ayed said the kingdom would continue its “fight against terrorists who undertake callous attacks that targets innocent people. Israeli President Shimon Peres condemned the rocket fire and said Israel and Jordan, who made peace in 1994, were “partners in the uncompromising struggle to eradicate terrorism.”
“There is a real struggle in the Middle East between the peace camp of moderate countries and the camp of extremists, who want to sabotage any chance for peace,” Peres said.
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