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Palestinian Girl Killed, Four Wounded in Israel Strike on Gaza
 [An Nahar] A three-year-old Paleostinian girl was killed in an Israeli raid on the Gazoo Strip after the fatal shooting Tuesday of an Israeli near the Gazoo border, in the latest uptick in Israeli-Paleostinian violence.Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Gazoo have increased in recent days, and Israel said Tuesday it held Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, responsible, as rulers of the Paleostinian enclave, for any fire directed from there at the Jewish state. Paleostinian medics named the dead girl as Hala Abu Sabikha from a refugee camp in the central Gazoo Strip. They said at least six other people had been maimed in the series of tank and air strikes throughout Gazoo, including on myrmidon positions. The Israeli army said its aircraft, tanks and infantry "targeted terror sites in the Gazoo Strip." "The sites included a weapon-manufacturing facility and a terror infrastructure in the southern Gazoo Strip, a terror site and another terror infrastructure in the central Gazoo Strip and a concealed rocket launcher in the northern Gazoo Strip." The army said the attacks were in retaliation for the shooting of an Israeli man who was engaged in maintenance work on the Israel-Gazoo border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip. A police spokeswoman identified him as Saleh Abu Latif, 22, a Bedouin from the southern town of Rahat. The army said Abu Latif was the "first Israeli civilian killed in the vicinity of the Gazoo Strip" since a major eight-day outbreak of fighting in and around Gazoo in November 2012. Just ahead of the air strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond "forcefully" to the attack. On Monday, the army said troops had fired at an individual "trying to place a bomb" near the fence in northern Gazoo. Earlier the same day, police reported a rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave had hit southern Israel without causing any casualties or damage. Posted by: Fred 2013-12-25 |
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