- Title: GAZA: An israeli airstrike in Beiot Hanoun destroys a building used by Hamas
- Date: 29th May 2007
- Summary: WIDE OF AMBULANCE CLOSE OF AMBULANCE AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF WOUNDED BEING WHEELED ON STRETCHER INSIDE HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF INJURED INSIDE HOSPITAL EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL
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- Story Text: An Israeli air strike in northern Gaza destroyed a building used by Hamas on Monday (May 28), Palestinian witnesses and an army spokesman said.
Two people were injured during the airstrike Palestinian medical officials said.
Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
At least seven rockets struck the town of Sderot in southern Israel but no one was hurt, the military said. Previous salvoes during an almost two-week-old surge of cross-border fighting have killed two Israelis -- one a motorist hit on Sunday.
Israel has struck back with an aerial bombing campaign that has killed more than 40 Palestinians in Gaza.. Yet the failure to end the rocket barrages has prompted the Israeli government to speak of tougher action.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Hamas would be fought "without limitation". But having been rapped by a commission of inquiry for his handling of last year's costly Lebanon war, Olmert has resisted rightist calls for a major ground sweep of Hamas bastions in the congested Gaza Strip. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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