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| Gaza pounded despite truce talks with Israel in Cairo | |
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| Gaza has come under renewed bombardment from Israel, as agreement on a ceasefire to end a week of violence remains elusive. | Gaza has come under renewed bombardment from Israel, as agreement on a ceasefire to end a week of violence remains elusive. |
| At least 20 Palestinians were reported to have been killed on Tuesday. Two Israelis - a soldier and a civilian - were killed in rocket strikes. | At least 20 Palestinians were reported to have been killed on Tuesday. Two Israelis - a soldier and a civilian - were killed in rocket strikes. |
| Earlier, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said a ceasefire would shortly be announced at talks in Cairo. | Earlier, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said a ceasefire would shortly be announced at talks in Cairo. |
| But Israel has said a deal is not yet done. | But Israel has said a deal is not yet done. |
| And late on Tuesday, a senior Hamas official, Izzat Risheq, said a deal might not be reached until the morning. | |
| The Israeli military said its renewed artillery fire had targeted "two terror operatives" in the central Gaza Strip. | |
| Earlier, it had asked residents in villages around Gaza City to move to central areas for their own safety. Those killed in Gaza on Tuesday also included two journalists from a Hamas-linked TV channel. | |
| Also late on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel, in an effort to support moves towards a ceasefire. | |
| She said she would work with Israel and Egypt on brokering a truce in Gaza "in the days ahead". | |
| After late-night talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she is due to travel to Ramallah in the West Bank and Cairo on Wednesday. | |
| The Israeli army said about 150 rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israel on Tuesday, and many had been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system. | |
| It said one of its soldiers had been killed in the Eshkol area by a rocket - the first military fatality in the recent upsurge. | |
| An Israeli civilian working for the defence ministry was killed by another strike in the Negev desert. | |
| The latest flare-up began last week with the killing of a Hamas military leader. Israel says that assassination, and its subsequent offensive, aims to end rocket fire from Gaza. | |
| Gaza's health ministry says at least 130 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have died since last Wednesday. Three Israeli civilians died last Thursday in the Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi. |