Journal and Courier · Lafayette, IN · 8 July 2014

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BOMBS POUND ISRAEL, GAZA

Rocket attacks escalate after teens' deaths

Michele Chabin / Special for USA TODAY

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JERUSALEM Rocket fire escalated Monday across the Gaza border as tension mounted over the deaths of three Israeli teens and last week’s revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager. The Israeli army announced it was carrying out airstrikes early today in Gaza to stop rocket attacks.

The airstrikes came after Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, intensified its rocket assault on Israel on Monday night, the Israeli Defense Force said. One injury was reported. Israel earlier said it was also calling up 1,500 reservists for a potential mission in Gaza. Eight Palestinian militants were killed in fighting Monday.

At least nine were injured in today’s airstrikes, Gaza health official Ashraf Al-Kedra said. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an army spokesman, said Monday that Israel was “prepared for a potential deterioration” in Gaza “with potential to use military force.” The attacks come after Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday for the young Palestinian’s death.

Three of the six confessed and re-enacted the crime, an Israeli official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of a gag order. Israel is calling up 1,500 reservists for a potential mission in Gaza, according to an announcement after Monday’s meeting of Israel’s security Cabinet.

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, said “all options are on the table. We need to broadcast to Hamas a message of deterrence.” Residents in the southern part of the country were instructed to stay close to bomb shelters.

The increased attacks along the Israel-Gaza border represent a second front for Israel, which has been trying to contain Palestinian rioting after Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, was burned to death Wednesday. His killing followed last week’s discovery of the three Israeli teens who were abducted in the West Bank on June 12 and killed. Israel blames Hamas.

Rachelle Fraenkel, mother of one of the Israeli teens, said she could not describe her distress over the killing of the Arab. “No mother and father should endure what we are going through now. We feel the pain of Mohammed Abu Khdeir’s parents,” she said.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke Monday with the father of the slain Palestinian teenager, saying “I would like to express my outrage and that of the citizens of Israel over the reprehensible murder of your son.” Emotions were running high, with crowds attacking Arabs.

Tomer Lavie, a teacher in Jerusalem, said he saw 20 to 30 youths trying to pull a Palestinian taxi driver from his cab. “I saw the whole thing from the bus on the way home,” Lavie said. “They circled a taxi and started cursing at the driver.” Contributing: Oren Dorell in McLean, Va.; the Associated Press

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Short enough to transcribe whole, and worth reading whole. The headline order is 'BOMBS POUND ISRAEL, GAZA' and the dek attributes the escalation to 'teens' deaths' without saying whose.

The sentence to put in front of Maria is the paper's own: 'Rachelle Fraenkel... said she could not describe her distress over the killing of the Arab.' The bereaved Israeli mother names Mohammed Abu Khdeir in her quotation; the American newspaper, in the sentence introducing her, calls him 'the Arab'.

Note also the casualty bookkeeping: 'Eight Palestinian militants were killed' and 'One injury was reported' (Israeli), with no Palestinian civilian count, and the taxi driver who is attacked but never named.

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