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Day 3: Israeli airstrikes kill 3 in Gaza
 ...including a 12-year-old boy, as cross-border violence continued for a third day.Medical front man in Gazoo Adham Abu Salmiya said Ayoub Useila, 12, was killed in Jabalia refugee camp. His seven-year-old cousin was injured in the attack and taken to Kamal Udwan hospital in Jabalia, north Gazoo. Israeli warplanes also fired on the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gazoo City, killing Ahmad Deib Salim, 24. He was a known beturbanned goon, Abu Salmiya said. Gazook farm keeper Adel al-Issi, 52, was also killed midday on Sunday when Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a field in Gazoo City, Abu Salmiya said, bringing the corpse count since Friday evening to 18. Israel's army said it had targeted a terrorist "moments before firing a Grad rocket at the city of Ashdod." Earlier, the Israeli army said that it had targeted a "terrorist squad" preparing to fire rockets from northern Gazoo. It also confirmed a direct hit on "two rocket launching sites, in the northern Gazoo Strip, used by terror organizations." An Israeli army spokeswoman said there had been a total of five Six more projectiles were fired from Gazoo on Sunday, an Israeli police front man said. A Paleostinian official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said Egypt had begun mediating a ceasefire on Sunday. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry had no comment. "Israel said it was willing to end this round of violence if rockets from Gazoo stopped," the Paleostinian official said on Sunday. "Paleostinian factions also told Egypt they were not interested in escalation and that they did not start the round, but Israel cannot decide to end it whenever it wants to do so." Posted by: trailing wife 2012-03-12 |
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