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Minister says Israel should raze Gaza villages
JERUSALEM - Israeli Trade Minister Eli Yishai said on Tuesday that the Jewish state should raze Palestinian village in the Gaza Strip to stop militants there from firing rockets.
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“What is needed is to evacuate the villages from where the rockets are being fired, and raze them,” Yishai, from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told public radio. “And to do this village after village until they stop firing rockets against us,” said Yishai, who also serves as deputy prime minister and is a member of Israel’s security cabinet. “This situation cannot continue as is.”
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Earlier Tuesday, an Israeli woman soldier was wounded in the southern town of Sderot when a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip exploded, a military source said. An anonymous representative from the hardline Islamic Jihad faction claimed responsibility for the rocket fire in a call to AFP in Gaza City.

Gaza militants regularly fire rockets into Israel, with the majority of the makeshift devices causing property damage. Since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the rockets have killed eight people inside Israel, including five in Sderot, according to the army. Israel has been waging a three-month air and ground operation in the Gaza Strip in a bid to stem the rocket fire, during which more than 200 Palestinians have been killed.

Separately, in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, a Palestinian militant was wounded by Israeli gunfire Tuesday, hospital sources said. An army spokesman said soldiers had opened fire after a Palestinian tried to detonate explosives. Six wanted militants were arrested by troops overnight in the West Bank.
Posted by: Steve 2006-09-26
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