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Israel on Saturday ruled out an immediate truce in Gaza, saying the onus was on Palestinian militants to stop launching rockets from an arsenal it suggested could be depleted within days, while its aircraft kept up strikes in the enclave.

“We’re not holding ceasefire talks,” National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi told a municipal event near Jerusalem, adding that Israel‘s top priority for now was firing on militants.

” … And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.” Obadiah 1:18

Islamic Jihad’s armed wing said it would press on with rocket salvos as fighting entered a fifth day. “The resistance prepared itself for months of confrontation,” Islamic Jihad said a statement.

From dawn, Gaza militants fired rockets, setting off sirens and sending Israelis across the border running to bomb shelters. At least two people, Palestinian laborers from Gaza working in Israel, were badly wounded by shrapnel.

The Israeli military said aircraft struck Islamic Jihad command centers and rocket launchers in Gaza. Huge clouds of smoke rose as loud explosions ripped through areas bombed.

In the Deir Al-Balah area of the central Gaza Strip, a building was flattened as houses nearby were knocked down. There were no reports of casualties as residents sifted through piles of rubble.

Air strikes on a house also damaged the nearby Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, wounding a number of nurses and patients with flying shrapnel, Eyad Abu Zaher, the hospital’s director, said.

Israel‘s military says it has made every effort to limit civilian casualties and damage to houses, and accuses Islamic Jihad of deliberately locating its command centers in residential areas.

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