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JERUSALEM — Israeli aircraft targeting Palestinian rockets Wednesday killed a 12-year-old boy, his father and uncle in a bungled attack, while Islamic militants, enraged by the death of their leader’s son in an Israeli raid, bombarded Israel with rocket and mortar fire.
While Gaza was heating up, a hawkish party pulled out of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Ol mert’s government, weakening his political base but potentially freeing him to make greater concessions to the Palestinians.
Two days of violence in Gaza appeared to be uniting Palestinians against Israel at a time when peace talks have resumed for the first time in seven years. On Tuesday, 19 Palestinians were killed, most of them militants.
