Israel Renews Attacks on Gaza

Air strikes, border closing follow Israeli soldier's border death
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 27, 2009 1:02 PM CST
Israel Renews Attacks on Gaza
Palestinians wait in line hoping to buy cooking gas as a building destroyed in the last Israeli military offensive is seen in the background, in the devastated area of Gaza today.   (AP Photo)

In the worst violence since both sides declared ceasefires, Israel today launched new air attacks and sent tanks and bulldozers into Gaza following a border explosion that killed an Israeli soldier, the BBC reports. There has been intense fighting in the south and a Palestinian farmer was killed. Israel closed Gaza border crossings following the explosion, halting rushed aid efforts.

Meanwhile in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backed "Israel's right to self-defense” in her first news conference. "The rocket barrages, which are getting closer and closer to populated areas (in Israel), cannot go unanswered,” she said.
(More Arab Israeli conflict stories.)

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