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UN call for ceasefire in Gaza ignored
Israeli troops and Hamas fighters continue attacks, ignoring a UN call for a Gaza ceasefire.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:50 January 10, 2009
- Image Credit: AP
- A mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza, on Saturday.
Gaza: Israeli jets and troops have attacked targets in the Gaza and Hamas fighters fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities, ignoring a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire after two weeks of combat.
On Saturday, Gaza residents said warplanes attacked an unused Hamas security compound in the southern town of Khan Younis and several buildings in and around Gaza.
In the Israeli city of Ashod, police said that a Palestinian rocket hit an apartment buidling, wounding at least five people.
The UN Security Council resolution called for an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said in in an interview published on Saturday that Israel is "not looking to reoccupy the Gaza Strip" but declined to give a timeframe for military operations in the territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said more Hamas rockets fired on Friday "only prove that the UN's decision is not practical and will not be kept in practice by the Palestinian murder organisations."
Hamas also dismissed the resolution, and spokesmen expressed annoyance they were not consulted.
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