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By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
11 June 2006
Palestinian girl Houda Ghalia, center, during the funeral for her parents and siblings1 in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 10, 2006. They were killed by Israeli artillery2 shell while on beach pinic Friday
Two Palestinians militants4 have been killed and an Israeli civilian5 seriously wounded in fighting in and around the Gaza Strip. It is the most serious outbreak of violence since the Islamic militant3 group, Hamas, took control of the Palestinian Authority 11 weeks ago.
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Hamas militants in Gaza fired rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot, the second such barrage6 in two days. The Hamas military wing ended a 16-month-old truce7 on Friday, after eight Palestinian civilians8 were killed on a Gaza beach, apparently9 by a stray Israeli artillery shell. Hamas said it will continue rocket attacks until Sderot is, in its words, a "ghost town."
The strategy may be working. Sderot residents like Batya Katari accuse the government of failing to protect them, and are threatening to move out.
"The government of Israel has neglected Sderot and sold us out," Katari told Israel Radio. "We do not want to live here," she said.
Palestinian youths look through a hole in the wall after an explosion in a house killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip
Israel responded to the attacks with an air strike, and Palestinians say a group of Hamas militants preparing to fire rockets was hit.
Moderate Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat of the Fatah party says it is all too familiar.
"Violence will breed violence, killings11 will just breed more of it and bullets will generate the same. And, we have been there before," he said.
The Israeli army has opened an investigation12 into the killing10 of the eight Palestinian civilians, and is trying to determine if an artillery shell went astray and hit a family picnicking on the beach. Commanders say that is a possibility, though there is not enough evidence yet to confirm it. They also say the civilians may have been killed by a Palestinian rocket that went off course.
1 siblings | |
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 ) | |
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n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队) | |
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3 militant | |
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士 | |
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激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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5 civilian | |
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的 | |
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6 barrage | |
n.火力网,弹幕 | |
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7 truce | |
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束 | |
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8 civilians | |
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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9 apparently | |
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎 | |
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10 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发 | |
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12 investigation | |
n.调查,调查研究 | |
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