The Journal Star · Peoria, IL · 27 October 2018
CP-2018-034
Rockets hit Israel after deadly Gaza protest
Transcribed from the clipping
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft struck several militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday shortly after militants fired rockets into southern Israel, the Israeli military said. Israel's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot conducted situational assessment while the airstrikes and barrages of rockets continued, the army added without elaborating.
The cross-border violence came hours after Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing the Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel.
In a rare statement implicitly claiming responsibility for the rocket fire, the smaller Islamic Jihad group said it has always exercised restraint, but it "can no longer stand idle before the continued killing of innocents and bloodshed by the Israeli occupation." There was no word on injuries as a result of the rockets and airstrikes.
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Context added by this archive
The fourth printing of the same AP story. This paper runs it unbylined and cuts it to five paragraphs, stopping before the casualty detail: the four dead are counted but the 27-year-old shot in the head, the three dead in Khan Younis and the 170 injured are all gone. Eisenkot's "situational assessment" sentence survives again.
Photo caption: "Protesters chant slogans Friday while waving their national flags as others burn tires near the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest east of Gaza City." No photo credit is visible in the scan.
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"Rockets hit Israel after deadly Gaza protest," The Journal Star, 27 October 2018. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2018-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2018-034
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