ISRAEL: Israel security sources say a mortar bomb fired from the Gaza Strip killed a four-year-old Israeli child

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  • Title: ISRAEL: Israel security sources say a mortar bomb fired from the Gaza Strip killed a four-year-old Israeli child
  • Date: 22nd August 2014
  • Summary: ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL (AUGUST 22, 2014) (REUTERS) SIGN READING IN ENGLISH, HEBREW AND ARABIC: "NAHAL OZ" AMBULANCE AT SCENE ISRAELI SOLDIERS AT SCENE AMBULANCE DRIVING AWAY ISRAELI FORCES AND AMBULANCE AT SCENE SECURITY AT NEIGHBOURHOOD ENTRANCE ISRAELI FORCES AND PEOPLE RUNNING TO TAKE COVER SAYING IN HEBREW: "SIREN, SIREN" VARIOUS OF ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLE DRIVING AWAY
  • Embargoed: 6th September 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: People
  • Reuters ID: LVAAW08FH4KGJ4V9TWV5OH183KBQ
  • Story Text: Israeli security sources said a mortar bomb fired from Gaza killed a four-year-old Israeli boy on Friday (August 22) - the first Israeli child killed in the conflict as fighting between Israel and Hamas raged.
    More than 80 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, wounding people at a synagogue in Ashdod and two others in Beersheba and Sderot, Israeli police said.
    Israeli forces carried out more than 25 air strikes in Gaza on Friday, killing four people, Palestinian health officials said.
    Israel launched its offensive on Gaza on July 8 with the stated aim of putting an end to cross-border rocket fire.
    More than 2,070 Palestinians have since been killed in the conflict, most of them civilians, while large areas of Gaza have been destroyed, leaving around 400,000 of the enclave's 1.8 million people displaced.
    Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and four civilians in Israel have been killed.
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