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JERUSALEM， Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Monday struck with artillery the northern Gaza Strip， demolishing a Hamas post which was used earlier for firing a rocket towards Israel's territory， a military spokesperson said.


The rocket landed in an open field， causing no injuries or damages， Israeli authorities said.


In response， an Israel Defense Forces tank targeted a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip， the spokesperson said in a statement.


Palestinian media reported that two bombings hit the Beit Lahia area， causing no injuries.


It was the first time that rockets were fired from the besieged Palestinian enclave since October， according to a recent report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center， an Israel-based research center with close ties to Israel's intelligence arms.


The Center's 2016 report shows that over the past year， rocket attacks by Gaza militants were at their lowest point in 11 years.


Israel's last full-blown military campaign in Gaza ended in July 2014 after 51 days of war. Since then， sporadic fire incidents occur on both sides of the border but have never evolved into a full-blown war.




WASHINGTON， June 18 (Xinhua) -- Only one in four U.S. millennials are emotionally or psychologically attached to a brand， product or company， making the group the most picky consumers in the country， found a latest Gallup survey.


The poll comes at a time when businesses， media and corporations are scrambling to get the attention of this important demographic in order to create lifelong customers， with efforts often falling flat.


The group - made up of those born between 1980 and 1996 - have low levels of identifying with brands across most industries that Gallup tracks.


In the banking industry， for example， a mere 31 percent of millennial customers are fully engaged. In hospitality， the figure is 20 percent， Gallup found.


Even more discouraging for brands， millennial customers are also much more likely to be actively disengaged than any other generation of consumers. In some industries， millennials' level of active disengagement is nearly on a par with -- or exceeds -- their level of engagement， Gallup found.


In the insurance industry， only 31 percent of millennial customers are fully engaged - meaning the level at which they identify with the brand - and 27 percent are actively disengaged.


In the airline industry， just 12 percent of millennials are fully engaged， while almost four times as many - or 46 - percent， are actively disengaged， Gallup found.


Instead of creating advocates and "brand ambassadors" among millennials， many companies are creating brand destroyers who have a host of digital soapboxes from which to air their grievances.


Millennials are highly connected with vast social networks and have their pick of open forums for sharing their dissatisfaction with a product， service or company， Gallup found.


When millennials are fully engaged as customers， they're more profitable and loyal than are other customers. In the wireless service industry， Gallup discovered that 95 percent of fully engaged millennial customers say they plan to stay with their wireless provider， compared with 10 percent of actively disengaged millennial customers.


These fully engaged customers are substantially more like.