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21 Palestinians killed by Israelis since Friday Palestinian medics say three killed, including a 15-year-old boy, bringing death toll to 21 since attacks began Friday.

Israeli air attacks in the Gaza Strip have killed three more people, bringing the number of dead to up to 21 since hostilities erupted in the Palestinian territory on Friday, according to Palestinian medical sources. Medics reported six air raids in the early hours of Monday that injured 35 people, and another two raids around the city of Khan Younis, which left two dead and two others wounded. The Palestinian faction Islamic Jihad said two of the dead were members of its military wing, the al-Quds Brigades. Medics said that another strike on Monday killed a 15-year-old boy and injured six other students near a school in northern Gaza. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan, reporting from Gaza City on Monday, said there were rumours of a truce on Sunday night, "but that simply didn't come to pass and the air strikes are continuing." He reported quoting Islamic Jihad sources that the Egyptians, "at the behest of Hamas" - the Palestinian faction that governs the Gaza Strip - were trying to establish an informal truce between Israel and Palestinian groups. However, our correspondent said, "Islamic Jihad is very reluctant to abide by that at the moment. "They are extremely unhappy that the Israelis are pursuing what they call an ÃÂssassination policy'. "Islamic Jihad are reluctant to abide by any negotiated truce unless they can get a guarantee from Israel that those assasination attacks will stop, and frankly I donÃÕ think that guarantee is going to come. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the latest raids, but earlier confirmed it carried out six strikes that "targeted a weapons storage facility and four rocket launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as a rocket launching site in the southern Gaza Strip". Israeli account Micky Rosenfeld, Israeli police spokesman, said Palestinian fighters had fired 11 rockets into Israel overnight, including one that damaged a building in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. There were no injuries. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said on Sunday that the operations would "continue as long as necessary". Israel radio quoted him as saying during a tour of the country's south that he had "given orders to strike all those who plan on attacking us". The Palestinians and Israelis have made rival calls for the UN Security Council to act as Israel hit back against rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip with deadly air strikes that left at least 18 people killed, according to medics in Gaza. Tensions have mounted as the international Quartet on the Middle East - the US, Russia, EU and UN - holds its first top-level meeting in six months on Monday. The deadlock in the Israel-Palestinian peace process will be discussed at the UN headquarters by the US secretary of state, Russia's foreign Minister and the UN secretary-seneral. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign affairs chief, was expected to join the meeting via videoconference. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the UN, said the Security Council must "act with urgency to address this crisis" accusing Israel of staging an "escalation of deadly violence and terror". He said women and children were among "dozens" of wounded and the dead also included a farmer killed while working in his field. Mansour said that if Israel was not held accountable "this will only ensure the bolstering of its impunity and the further escalation of its crimes against the Palestinian people with far-reaching consequences for the future of our people and the prospects for peace and stability to ever be realised". In return, Israel criticised the international community's "silence" over rocket attacks from Gaza, and said in a letter to the Security Council that it would take "all necessary measures" to protect civilians against the renewed barrage.
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There is a reason why they do that ... see unlike us they have learnt the lesson when it comes to dealing with Islamic nonsense for centuries. They realize that their only chance for survival is by using disproportionate force. They know if one day these guys get hold of WMDs jews will be toast in no time. There exists no such thing as peaceful resolution of disputes in the Islamic world.
+1. Only thing the Islamic terrorist understand is show of strength.
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Well done to Israel, it's ok for the terrorist to kill innocents and it's ok for the Arab civilians to dance in the street when innocent Jews etc die. So as far as I am concerned it's ok what Israel is doing as well, nothing but respect for the Jews, surrounded by blood thirsty Arabs who want to wipe them out, yet the Jews have stood tall. I still laugh at the memory of the 5 day war, one nation against almost the whole Arab world and Israel still wiped them out in 5 days. I agree Israel should do something about Iran as well, I am sure they will when everyone least expects it.

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There is a reason why they do that ... see unlike us they have learnt the lesson when it comes to dealing with Islamic nonsense for centuries. They realize that their only chance for survival is by using disproportionate force. They know if one day these guys get hold of WMDs jews will be toast in no time. There exists no such thing as peaceful resolution of disputes in the Islamic world.
Taking out a school if some militant shot his bottle rocket from that area would be considered fair game than? Ironic that the country that gets compared to Hitler/Nazis the most is Israel!
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Ironic that the country that gets compared to Hitler/Nazis the most is Israel!
Yes, that is the Irony. These guys got screwed by the Nazis and are now are doing the same to Palestinians, denying them even basic service and right to their own country. That said, the Palestinians are also stupid people, who can't seem to find a way to compromise and want to keep fighting tanks and missiles with stones.
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Palestinian territories are some of the most oppressed. Its a vicious cycle that will never end. Israel blockade = horrible living conditions = section develops furious hatred against jews = fire rockets = kill more palestinians in retalation = more hatred . Israel is *****in its pants looking at Iran , lets see them take on someone their own size without the Americans. Even Hezbollah gave them a decent thumping the last time.

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What's the other way to respond ? Special forces in those tight urban areas all the time ? Those talking of Iran must not recall the Yom Kippur war or Operation Opera. There's no nation that's been as tactically shrewd & gutsy in recent history.

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^^Let me know when the Hezbos plan to build a nuclear enrichment facility. Guerrilla warfare is hardly the benchmark of judging how the armed forces of a nation handle WMD threats from a large nation. Would you apply the same standards and suggest the ISI trained non-state actors give us a bloody nose ever so often and we thus are not capable of tackling the rogue that's west ?

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so the shrewd nation couldn't adapt and fight ? - it only shows mighty Israel is as vulnerable as anyone else, nothing especially shrewd about them. Israel went into another country with its special forces, the cream of its armed forces and got bloodied... no way can you compare that with the lathi armed indian police trying to tackle terrorist acts. The closest thing to be compared to for us is the IPKF venture into Srilanka. Everytime someone talks about Israel - it always goes all the way back to Yom Kyippur/Arab Israeli war decades ago. Thats like the Chinese arguing that because of what happened in the 60s.. they can walk into our north-east even now and grab as much land as they want .

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