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Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit a U.N. school in the northern Gaza Strip, the second deadly Israeli airstrike to hit a U.N. school on Tuesday.Israel's military said its shelling was a response to mortar fire from within the school, pressing its assertion that Hamas militants are using civilians as cover. Two residents of the area who spoke to the Associated Press by telephone said they saw a handful of militants firing mortar shells from a street near the school.Israel has accused Hamas of using schools, mosques and residential areas for cover and staging grounds for terrorist attacks.Earlier Tuesday there was an attack that killed three at a school in the Gaza city itself.U.N. and Palestinian medics said 40 Palestinians were killed in the attack, including children, women and elderly people.Palestinian health official Said Joudeh told the Associated Press the school was turned into a shelter for people displaced by Israel's offensive against Hamas militants.Also on Tuesday, Israeli tanks blasted their way into the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis for the first time, Palestinian witnesses said, as heavy fighting raged on the northern edges of Gaza City itself.Shells slammed into Gaza and ground forces edged closer to major population centers, taking more civilian lives after Israel declined mounting international calls for an immediate cease-fire on Monday. A Palestinian rocket attack wounded an Israeli infant....To read more go to:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476664,00.html
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