4/8/11

Israeli aircraft and ground forces struck Gaza on Friday, killing two Hamas gunmen and wounding seven other Palestinians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before.Israel’s ongoing retaliation for the bus attack has killed five militants, a policeman and a civilian. An Israeli Cabinet minister said the strikes will continue.

In Thursday’s attack, Gaza militants hit an Israeli school bus near the border with an anti-tank rocket, badly wounding the driver and a 16-year-old boy. Hamas, the Iran-backed militant group that controls Gaza, claimed responsibility for the attack. The boy remains unconscious in the intensive care ward of an Israeli hospital.”Whoever tries to hurt and murder children: the blood is on his hands,” he said during a meeting with the Czech president, according to the Jerusalem Post.”Whoever tries to hurt and murder children: the blood is on his hands,” he said during a meeting with the Czech president, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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