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Israeli, Palestinian attacks batter Gaza ceasefire
Mon Feb 2, 2009 10:06am EST
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel carried out air strikes and Palestinians launched mortar bomb attacks Monday despite a ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, but Israel's defense minister said a wider offensive was not imminent.
Responding to Egyptian efforts to broker a long-term truce, a Hamas spokesman said it would be prepared to halt hostilities for a year if a deal could be reached on lifting Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and reopening border crossings.
An Israeli aircraft attacked a car in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egyptian border, killing one militant and wounding three other gunmen, medical officials said, identifying them as members of the Popular Resistance Committees.
The Israeli military said it targeted a squad that fired two mortar bombs into southern Israel. A police spokesman said the Palestinian attack caused no casualties or damage.
Sunday, Israeli planes attacked a Hamas security complex and smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border.
There were no reported casualties in those strikes, the Israeli military said. The attacks followed the firing of about a dozen rockets and mortar bombs into southern Israel Sunday, which wounded two Israeli soldiers and a civilian.
Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers put a ceasefire into effect on January 18 after a 22-day Israeli offensive that medical officials in the enclave said killed 1,300 Palestinians, including 700 civilians.
Ten Israel soldiers and three civilians were killed during the campaign, "Operation Cast Lead," which Israel said was intended to end cross-border rocket fire.
"DISPROPORTIONATE" RESPONSE
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Sunday a "disproportionate" military response to continuing rocket salvoes that Palestinian militants have described as payback for fresh Israeli attacks.
But his defense minister, Ehud Barak, signaled Israel would stop short of all-out war.
"It is not our intention to have an Operation Cast Lead 2," he said in an interview with the YNet news Web site.
"We said there would be a response and there was a response last night," he said about Sunday's air strikes.
Barak's comments clashed with statements Sunday by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni who said that, if necessary, Israel would mount a new offensive in the Gaza Strip to end rocket attacks on its southern communities.
Both Barak, head of the center-left Labor Party, and Livni, chairman of the ruling, centrist Kadima party, are candidates for prime minister in Israel's February 10 election. Opinion polls forecast victory for right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud. Continued...
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