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On Apr 7, 2:37 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza
> Apr 7, 2011 – 11:50 AM
> <http://www.aolnews.com/team/linda-gradstein/>
>
> *Linda Gradstein* <http://www.aolnews.com/team/linda-gradstein/> Contributor
> JERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank
> missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today
> with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian.
>
> The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel
> and the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, and raised fears of a
> new cycle of violence.
>
> "The boy was lying on the ground bleeding," a member of the rescue services
> told the Haaretz newspaper. "The bus driver was conscious and hysterical.
> The entire bus was destroyed; it was a horrifying sight."
>
> [image: An Israeli school bus hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza
> Strip is seen on the road near the border between southern Israel and Gaza
> Wednesday, April 7, 2011. A Palestinian mortar shell from the Gaza Strip
> struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people,
> including one child critically, Israeli officials said.]
> Edi Israel, AP
> An Israeli school bus hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip is
> seen Wednesday on the road near the border between southern Israel and Gaza.
> Local officials said the yellow bus had been carrying 50 children home from
> school, although all but one had already been dropped off.
>
> "It's the first time that a missile has hit a bus," Larry Taranto, the
> manager of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, told AOL News. "We have to make sure that our
> kids are accounted for, and that's our first priority."
>
> Palestinian militants in Gaza also fired at least 20 mortar shells at
> southern Israel. One hit a house and damaged it, but nobody was home at the
> time.
>
> No Palestinian organization claimed responsibility, but Israeli Defense
> Minister Ehud Barak blamed Hamas, which controls Gaza. Barak said he ordered
> the army to respond quickly. The army obeyed the order, launching a series
> of strikes on Gaza.
>
> A 50-year-old Palestinian man was killed and at least eight people,
> including a 4-year-old child, were wounded in those strikes. Palestinians
> reported loud explosions in Gaza and helicopter fire for the first time in
> two years.
>
> In Israel, residents are angry at the Israeli government for not doing more
> to stop the rocket fire from Gaza. Two years ago, Israel launched a
> large-scale incursion into Gaza that killed about 1,400 Palestinians,
> including hundreds of civilians. Thirteen Israelis also died. Some Israelis
> are calling for another incursion.
>
> "This is barbaric and unacceptable," Alon Shuster, the head of the Shaar
> Hanegev local council, told Israel Radio. "Hamas is trying to create a new
> equation in which each time we launch an attack, they respond. But our
> attacks are on militants, and theirs target civilians."
>
> Shuster was referring to an Israeli airstrike over the weekend that killed
> three Palestinian militants. Israel said one of the men was a senior Hamas
> operative, and they were planning to kidnap Israelis over the upcoming
> Passover holiday. Hamas described the airstrike as a "serious escalation"
> and vowed that Israel would "bear all the consequences."
>
> Speaking in New York, Israeli President Shimon Peres sharply condemned the
> attack on the bus.
>
> "This is another clear example of Gaza's transformation into a terror
> state," Peres said.
>
> Bill
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