The attacks increased after militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus from Gaza on Thursday, injuring a teenage boy. Israel launched a series of air strikes and Gazan groups fired about 80 mortar shells and 20 longer-range rockets. Leaders from both sides made radio appeals for calm and indicated that each side had no desire to escalate the conflict. It was reported that Robert
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