 GAZA CITY - Israeli aircraft pounded more targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the main armed factions discussed a truce call by ineffectual Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end ”futile” rocket barrages. But Hamas put the onus on Israel for any hope of an end to the rocket fire, demanding that it stop shooting first.
| "Even though we started it, they have to stop." |
Five Palestinians were killed and eight wounded in a quick succession of four morning air raids on buildings used by the paramilitary Executive Force loyal to the senior Palestinian coalition partner, Hamas, medical sources said.
 The bodies of three Palestinians were found under the rubble of a building destroyed in one attack, in Zeitun settlement south of Gaza City. Six people were wounded, including three critically, two of whom died later.
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Two other Executive Force posts were attacked, one in the nearby Shati refugee camp, in which four people were wounded, and the other at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The fourth raid targeted a militant training camp at Khan Yunis, also in the south. No casualties were reported.
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