OCCUPIED JERUALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli premier Ehud Olmert acknowledged Tuesday during a visit to the coastal city of Ashkelon his government's failure to stop the Palestinian resistance fighters from firing their homemade rockets on the settlement outposts adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

Olmert also asked inhabitants of Ashkelon, as he did in the past with Sderot, which was exposed to heavy rocket attacks, to get accustomed to the idea that these attacks could be repeated because Israel has no way to prevent them.

Commenting on the calm that prevailed in the past few days, the Israeli premier said that the reason behind this calm is not because they love Israel or because we controlled rocket attacks, but this calm means that they are reorganizing themselves to start anew.

In the context of the resistance retaliation to the Israeli crimes and settlement expansion, the Abu Ali Brigades, the armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed Tuesday its responsibility for firing three homemade upgraded rockets on the Israeli Zikim settlement in the Negev area.

The IOA admitted on the same day that a rocket fell in the industrial zone south of Ashkelon causing no injuries a short time after Olmert left the city.

The Brigades also announced its responsibility for firing mortar shells on the Israeli Nahal Oz military post in addition to two rockets on the Negev area.

In another context, dozens of Israelis rushed pell-mell in state of panic inside the main market in the Netanya city in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 after an Israeli woman started to scream loudly alleging that there was a Palestinian resistance fighter.

According to the online version of the Israeli Yediot Ahronot newspaper, two Israelis at least were injured during the stampede which happened at noon Tuesday in the Netanya market.