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Star Tribune · 9 August 2022

CP-2022-031

Cease-fire holds in Gaza after three days of fighting

44 Palestinians died, but Iron Dome shielded Israel

The Washington Post

Cease-fire holds in Gaza after three days of fighting — Star Tribune, 9 August 2022
Star Tribune · 9 August 2022

Transcribed from the clipping

“A cease-fire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group held on Monday after three days of fighting that killed 44 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 15 children… No Israelis were killed. The Israeli military said its Iron Dome air defense system intercepted the great majority of rockets fired…”

Context added by this archive

The deck sets the two halves of the sentence in two different grammars. The Palestinians died. The Iron Dome shielded. One clause has an agent and the other does not, and they are separated by a comma.

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"Cease-fire holds in Gaza after three days of fighting," Star Tribune, 9 August 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-031. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-031

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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