New Gaza Violence Strains De Facto Truce
Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian girl at a U.N.-run school Monday, witnesses said, and militants shelled Jewish settlements in response, straining a de facto truce that has raised hopes for peace. The incidents punctured the relative calm that has settled over the Gaza Strip over the past two weeks, following new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s efforts to coax gunmen into a cease-fire ahead of a planned Israeli pullout this summer. Full Story