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An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader, Mohamed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed.
Palestinians launched more than 180 rockets on Tuesday and yesterday, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side.
Egypt, which has been trying to broker a long-term ceasefire in indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks, said it would continue contacts with both sides, whose delegates left Cairo after the hostilities resumed on Tuesday.
But there appeared to be no end in sight to violence that shattered a 10-day period of calm, the longest break from fighting since Israel launched its Gaza attacks on July 8.
Emir to meet
Abbas and Mishal
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mishal today. They will “review events in the Gaza Strip and general conditions in the Palestinian territories, in addition to means of supporting the Palestinian people during the brutal Israeli aggression”, the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) said.
