4 militants, 3 others slain by Israel
Airstrikes by Israel killed at least seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to stop rocket attacks on the Jewish state.
The Islamic militant group Hamas said two of its militants were killed and three were wounded in one strike. Another attack killed at least one Islamic Jihad militant, as well as a mother and child riding in a donkey cart, Palestinian hospital officials said. A third airstrike killed a militant leader and his wife.
Militants in the Hamas-controlled territory have fired close to 100 rockets at southern Israel in the last two days following the killing of 18 Palestinians, most of them gunmen, in some of the heaviest fighting in months.
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