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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Shelling kills four boys on Gaza beach; Israel, Hamas set five-hour truce

Palestinians carry bodies of two boys from Baker family, whom medics said were killed with other two children from same family by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, during their funeral in Gaza City By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Allyn Fisher-Ilan GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations. Palestinian militants fired more than 130 rockets into Israel on the ninth day of a war in which Israeli attacks have killed 216 Palestinians, including six in two air strikes on Wednesday. Most of the casualties were civilians, health officials in Gaza said. In Israel, a civilian has been killed by one of more than 1,000 Palestinian rockets fired and more than half a dozen people have been wounded.




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