Gaza violence intensifies
By Agencies in Gaza City, Palestinian Territories and Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-16 08:05
A Palestinian man sits in the rubble of a house destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Thursday. Israel exchanged the fiercest fire with Hamas in four years after assassinating its military mastermind and threatening a wider offensive in the Gaza Strip to stem Palestinian rocket attacks. Suhaib Salem / Reuters |
Warplanes pounded Gaza for a second day on Thursday as three Israelis and three Palestinians were killed in fierce fighting that began with Israel's targeted killing of a top Hamas chief.
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