The Israeli heavy artillery bombarded Al Abraj Areas, east of the border city of Rafah in the east of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said today. The sources quoted a correspondent who has been in the area as saying that the Israeli artillery also targeted the vicinity of the Karm Abu Salim (Kerem Shalom) and a number of houses and the properties of citizens there with machine guns . The sources did not report any casualties among Palestinian civilians in the shelling. --SPA