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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP (GAZA STRIP), OCT. 2. Israeli troops killed seven Palestinian gunmen on Saturday, including four who cut through Gaza's border fence, as the military expanded its offensive against Palestinian rocket fire, one of the largest in four years of fighting. About 2,000 soldiers in hundreds of armoured vehicles controlled an 8 km stretch of northern Gaza, from where militants have been firing homemade rockets at Israeli communities.
Rocket range
At least 47 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed in four days of violence. The Israeli offensive, ``Days of Penitence,'' was launched after a Hamas rocket killed two Israeli preschoolers in a town near Gaza on Wednesday. In their first-ever news conference, members of the secretive Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, threatened on Saturday to fire rockets at the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, which is 15 km north of Gaza and has been out of reach of the rockets. In a show of defiance, Izzedine al Qassam held the news conference at a mosque in the Jebaliya refugee camp, just a few blocks from Israeli tanks. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei, made a veiled appeal to militant groups to stop rocket attacks. ``We call on the factions to think about the higher national interest and not give Israel excuses to continue the aggression against our people in Gaza,'' Mr. Qurei said after an emergency Cabinet meeting.
Washington's appeal
In Washington, the State Department called on Israel to temper its military response to the rocket attack. Israel has a right to defend itself but should limit itself to using ``proportional force,'' said an official. — AP
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