US Envoy Urges Stronger Gaza Truce Amid
Airstrikes -- Yahoo News/AP
Airstrikes -- Yahoo News/AP
JERUSALEM – President Barack Obama's new Mideast envoy sought Wednesday to strengthen a 10-day-old Gaza cease-fire that was thrown into turmoil, as Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza smuggling tunnels in retaliation for a Palestinian bombing that killed a soldier.
As the Israeli Cabinet met to consider how far to go in its response to Tuesday's bombing, U.S. envoy George Mitchell called for the cease-fire to "be extended and consolidated."
Mitchell's tour launches the first Mideast foray of the new Obama administration. Obama said his envoy would listen to all sides to then craft an approach for moving forward with stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
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