Gaza truce shaken byrocket fire

Militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired several rockets into southern Israel yesterday, breaching a five-day-old ceasefire after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. "This is a blatant violation of the calm, and...

Militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired several rockets into southern Israel yesterday, breaching a five-day-old ceasefire after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

"This is a blatant violation of the calm, and we will weigh options," an aide quoted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as saying after the rockets struck.

The Egyptian-brokered truce, which took effect last Thursday, calls on Hamas to prevent cross-border fire from the Gaza Strip, which it seized by force a year ago.

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