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An Israeli army artillery unit fires shells from near the Israel Gaza Strip border, southern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. The Israeli military has been pounding Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight, hitting government ministries, smuggling tunnels, a bunker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting with Israeli and Palestinian officials trying to help negotiate a truce between Israel and the militant Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton deliver joint statements in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. A diplomatic push to end Israel's nearly weeklong offensive in the Gaza Strip gained momentum Tuesday, with Egypt's president predicting that airstrikes would soon end, the U.S. secretary of state racing to the region and Israel's prime minister saying his country would be a "willing partner" to a cease-fire with the Islamic militant group Hamas.(AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

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Israeli tanks in a staging area near the Israel Gaza Border in southern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. The Israeli military has been pounding Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight, hitting government ministries, smuggling tunnels, a banker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the West Bank, trying to help negotiate a truce between Israel and the militant Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. Clinton met earlier with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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An Israeli soldier prays as he sits at an armored personnel carrier at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. The Israeli military has been pounding Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight, hitting government ministries, smuggling tunnels, a banker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the West Bank, trying to help negotiate a truce between Israel and the militant Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raced to Israel on Tuesday in an attempt to de-escalate violence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would be a “willing partner” to implement a cease-fire with the Islamic militant group Hamas. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media at Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv on Nov. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** An Israeli solider rides atop an armored personnel carrier near the Gaza border in Israel on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Israeli soldiers stand on an armored personnel carrier close to the Gaza border in Israel on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second left) is surrounded by bodyguards as he walks towards a military helicopter following a visit to the Golan Heights on Nov. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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An Israeli woman reacts Nov. 20, 2012, after her house in Beersheba, Israel, was hit by a rocket fired by militants from Gaza Strip. (Associated Press)

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Smoke trails are seen after ordnance was fired Nov. 20, 2012, by Palestinian militants from Gaza towards southern Israel, east of Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza Strip. (Associated Press)

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Israeli border police stand guard in Birzeit, in the Palestinian territories on the West Bank, during a protest Monday against Israel’s military strikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane killed at least one senior Palestinian militant in a missile strike, and Hamas fired 75 rockets into Israel. (Associated Press)

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Smoke trails are seen after ordnance were fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City towards southern Israel, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Palestinians firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an Israeli strike on a building of Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says an Israeli strike on a Gaza media center has killed one of its top militant leaders. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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An Israeli soldier looks at an Iron Dome missile as it launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Israeli strikes hit two media centers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as Israel warned it was widening its range of targets to go after military commanders of the territory's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)