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Posted: 16 November 2012 0136 hrs
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday blamed Hamas for the explosion of violence in
Gaza after salvoes of rockets were fired into Israel in retaliation for the killing of the group's
military chief.
"We strongly condemn the barrage of rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, and we regret the death
and injury of innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians caused by the ensuing violence," White
House spokesman Jay Carney said.
"There's no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organizations are
employing against the people of Israel," he added, saying it "does nothing to help the
Palestinians."
He called on Hamas leaders to stop "these cowardly acts immediately to allow the situation to
de-escalate."
Carney's statement, given to reporters aboard Air Force One as President Barack Obama traveled
to New York, followed a telephone conversation the night before between Obama and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
During that conversation, Obama called on his counterpart in Israel to "make every effort to
avoid civilian casualties," while stressing Israel's right to defend itself from Hamas' attacks, the
White House said.
The two leaders agreed that Hamas needed to stop attacks on Israel to allow the situation to de-
escalate, the statement said, putting the blame for the outbreak of violence squarely in the hands
of the Islamist movement.
Seven Palestinians and three Israelis were killed in a wave of unrelenting cross-border fighting
on Thursday as the Jewish state pressed a vast air offensive on Gaza.
Operation Pillar of Defence, Israel's biggest military campaign against Gaza in nearly four years,
began on Wednesday with the targeted killing of top Hamas commander Ahmed Jaabari, which
triggered a major flare-up in and around the tiny Palestinian enclave which is home to 1.6
million Palestinians.
- AFP/fa
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