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Israel Bombs Gaza After U.N. Calls for Cease-Fire

Israeli warplanes continued bombing Gaza into the night Friday after the U.N. called for an immediate end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants.A reporter for the BBC located at the Israel-Gaza border said explosions could still be heard and smoke was seen drifting over the Strip on Friday morning.Three days of intense negotiations over the wording of a Gaza cease-fire resolution culminated Thursday evening with the U.N. Security Council passing the measure, calling for an immediate, durable truce between Israel and Hamas.The resolution passed by a 14-0 vote, with the United States abstaining. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. agrees with the principles of the cease-fire resolution but wants to see the outcome of an Egyptian effort to bring the Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table.The cease-fire resolution spearheaded by Egypt and France must be "not just applauded, but supported," Rice said.Despite the breakthrough in the United Nations, the two-week-old war in the Gaza Strip raged on, and early Friday, an Israeli airstrike flattened a five-story building in northern Gaza, one of more than 30 targets struck before dawn by Israeli warplanes.Hamas security officials said the strike killed at least seven people, including an infant...
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