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/ 21 November 2006
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into an Israeli town on Tuesday during a visit by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, critically wounding one person, witnesses and ambulance workers said. Commissioner Louise Arbour, on a tour of the Palestinian territories and Israel, was unhurt in the attack in Sderot.
Ten Israeli soldiers were killed and at least nine others were wounded when a Hezbollah rocket slammed into a group of reservists in northern Israel on Sunday, medics and Israeli media said. The attack on Kfar Giladi village was the deadliest Hezbollah rocket strike since war with Israel erupted on July 12.