Israel, Gaza clash as Egypt tries to broker truce - San Francisco Chronicle

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Jerusalem -- Cross-border <a href="http://zhengxing.99mr.com/koujiaochengxingshu/"><strong>口角成型术</strong></a> tensions between Israel and Gaza simmered Sunday as Egyptian efforts to restore an informal cease-fire began to take effect after a deadly round of Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket attacks Saturday. The Israeli military fired on what it said was a terrorist squad in southern Gaza preparing to fire rockets at Israel on Sunday. Gaza security officials said one Palestinian militant was killed and another was seriously wounded. Both, it said, were members of the armed wing of the leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The main clashes Saturday were between Israeli forces and Islamic Jihad, another group that sometimes acts independently of Hamas, the much larger Islamic militant group that controls Gaza. Israel said it had carried out several air strikes against Islamic Jihad squads preparing to fire rockets Saturday, killing nine militants. Islamic Jihad and other smaller groups fired barrages of rockets at cities in southern Israel, killing one Israeli civilian, Moshe Ami, 56, in the coastal city of Ashkelon. A spokesman for the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, identified only as Abu Ahmed, told reporters early Sunday that his group had accepted <a href="http://zhengxing.99mr.com/gongzhenxizhi/"><strong>共振吸脂</strong></a> the Egyptian effort to restore an informal truce, but said that the group reserved its right "to respond to Israeli aggression." In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was not seeking an escalation, but emphasized <a href="http://zhengxing.99mr.com/yaofuxizhi/"><strong>腰腹吸脂</strong></a> that anyone trying to attack Israel was taking their life in their hands. Hamas has largely maintained the fragile cease-fire that went into effect after Israel ended its three-week military offensive in Gaza in early 2009. Egypt's General Intelligence agency has direct channels of communication with the main Palestinian groups. Soon after the confrontation started Saturday, Al Aqsa TV, the Hamas channel in Gaza, reported that the Hamas authorities had contacted Egypt in a bid to contain the violence. This article appeared on page A - 3 of the San&#xA0;Francisco&#xA0;Chronicle