Thirty-three Gazans, at least half of them civilians, died in pitched battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian rocket squads that escalated sharply on Saturday. West Bank leaders threatened to suspend peace talks to protest the Israeli attacks, which came as Gaza militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortars.
The swelling violence threatened to be a prelude to an Israeli invasion of Gaza and came just days before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to arrive in the region on her latest peacekeeping mission.
Two children were among those killed in some of the fiercest fighting in the Gaza Strip since Islamic Hamas …
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