Israeli aircraft continue bombing besieged Gaza and Palestinian groups resume rocket fire from the city as Egypt tries to mediate a truce to the flare-up
The violence extends more than a year of resurgent Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis and foreigners since January. / Photo: Reuters
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the outskirts of Nablus in the northern West Bank, where clashes had erupted, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Israel's military said it struck Islamic Jihad armed group command centres and rocket launchers in its pre-dawn operations on Saturday. Grainy black and white aerial footage it released showed explosions and clouds of smoke rising from bombed sites.
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