"Can calm staunch blood?"

The TorStar has an interesting definition of 'calm'; only
4 Arabs extra-judicially executed(a fith killed in a separate
incident doesn't even merit mention);

C.F. Bernadotte

"JERUSALEM–It was another day of war in the Holy Land, mixed
with just a trace of peace, as some spoke of a possible ceasefire
while others warned of bloodier conflicts to come.

Israeli security forces were put on high alert across
the country last night, after an attack outside a
restaurant in Bethlehem by special units of the
Israeli military that left four Palestinians dead.

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad retaliated
today by firing rockets from Gaza against the Israeli
border town of Sderot in what it described as an
"initial" response to the Bethlehem raid.

Three of the dead were from Islamic Jihad, while the
fourth belonged to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas administration leader
Ismail Haniyeh set out his conditions for a potential
ceasefire with Israel following nine months of almost
daily clashes between the two sides that have caused
hundreds of deaths, almost all of them Palestinian.

Appearing in public for the first time since a deadly
Israeli incursion earlier this month in which more than
120 Palestinians were killed, Haniyeh yesterday proposed
to stop firing rockets and mortars at Israel in exchange for
an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza, the lifting of
punitive economic sanctions, and the opening of the territory's
borders with Israel, sealed to all but humanitarian supplies since
Hamas took power in Gaza last June."

full story;

http://www.thestar.com/World/
Columnist/article/345325

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Israeli air strike kills 3 Palestinian Freedom Fighters, 2 Children

An Israeli missile strike killed three Palestinian freedom fighters and two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a day after one of the deadliest attacks since Hamas seized the territory in June, medical workers told Reuters.

Bodies are loaded into an ambulance in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, after three Islamic Jihad members were killed in an Israeli missile strike.
(Adel Hana/Associated Press)

Tuesday's attack was against freedom fighters near the Apartheid wall in the southern part of the coastal territory, an Israeli army spokesman said.

The Israeli military confirmed one of its aircraft had fired at armed men as they approached the Israel-Gaza border. Palestinian medical staff told reporters that three armed members of the Islamic Jihad Group were killed.

The children killed in Gaza, 10 and 12 years old, were members of the same extended family, said Dr. Muawiya Hassanin of the Palestinian Health Ministry. A third child, 10, was seriously wounded and six other people were lightly hurt, all of them civilians, Hassanin told the Associated Press.

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