GAZA CITY: Israel and Gaza militants traded heavy fire Thursday, the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months, which has killed 29 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and one in Israel. Air strikes by the Israeli army since Tuesday have killed fighters as well as civilians, including several children, said officials in the crowded coastal territory.
Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip killed one person in the central Israeli city of Rehovot and injured at least two others, Israeli police said. Three others sustained shrapnel injuries elsewhere in Israel.Cairo was mediating efforts towards a truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group, while European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for 'an immediate comprehensive ceasefire.
'Wave of escalation' In Gaza City's Al-Rimal district, Mamoun Radi, 48, said: 'We hope that the wave of escalation will end, but we support revenge for the martyrs.'Israel assassinated a leader of Jihad at dawn today because it does not want calm.' Across southern Israel, sirens wailed intermittently through the night and on Thursday morning.Ashkelon resident Miriam Keren, 78, said a Gaza rocket had destroyed a workshop and damaged her house.
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