Gaza-Israel hostilities flare with rocket attacks, air strikes
• Cairo trying to mediate truce
• Netanyahu convenes Israeli security council
GAZA/JERUSALEM, May 4 (Reuters) - Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Saturday, drawing a wave of Israeli air strikes that killed a Palestinian baby and a gunman, as hostilities flared across the border for a second day.
The escalation began on Friday when a sniper from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fired at Israeli troops across the border wounding two of them, according to the Israeli military. A retaliatory Israeli air strike then killed two militants from the Islamist Hamas group that rules Gaza.
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