Rocket Hits Israeli City, Gaza Still Sealed

JERUSALEM – Palestinians fired a rocket at an Israeli city near the Gaza Strip on Friday but caused no casualties, police said, as the Israeli military continued its closure of all crossings into the coastal territory because of ongoing rocket fire.
Early Friday's rocket landed in an industrial zone in Ashkelon, about 11 miles inside Israel, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Israel allowed a trickle of key supplies into Gaza during a five-month truce with Gaza's Hamas rulers, then shut the crossings after the truce began breaking down Nov. 4 in a flurry of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes.

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Thousands of Jordanians protest Israeli Gaza blockade.
Thousands of people took to the streets of the Jordanian capital on Friday to protest Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
More than 3,000 demonstrators marched in the streets of the Al-Wihdat Palestinian refugee camp in Amman and torched US and Israeli flags, organisers said.
Chanting pro-Hamas slogans, the protesters carried banners reading, "Yes for resistance" and "End the Zionist occupation of Palestine."
"We can't be silent anymore about what happens in Gaza," Hamazah Mansur, head of the Islamic Action Front's six-member parliamentary bloc, told AFP.
"If the situation in Gaza develops, Arab rulers should expect an earthquake that would shake their countries and their regimes."
Israel has imposed sanctions on Gaza since the Islamist Hamas movement seized power last year in the impoverished territory of 1.5 million residents.
The one-hour protest was organised by the IAF, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, which held a similar protest on Wednesday.
The IAF said earlier this month it was planning a trip to the Gaza Strip from the southern Red Sea port of Aqaba in a bid to break an Israeli blockade.
Jordan and Israel are bound by a 1994 peace treaty.