New Israeli airstrikes kill 3 in Gaza

March 12, 2012 at 10:09a.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip today and Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel, in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts. The cross-border violence, touched off by Israel’s killing of a top militant leader on Friday, has been the worst exchange of fire between Israel and the Hamas-ruled territory in months.