Two Egyptian children injured by Israeli bombs with another 29 Palestinians killed in Gaza

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Another 29 Palestinians were killed today as Israel continued its offensive through the Gaza Strip.

Two other countries were pulled into the fighting on Sunday, with shots fired at Israeli army engineers working on the frontier fence from Syria, and two Egyptian children and two police officers wounded by shrapnel from Israeli bombs near a crossing point at Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death-toll now stands at 874 casualties after 16 days of fighting, as the Israeli forces edge into the Gaza Strip's most populous area.

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The children, aged two and five, and the two officers were the first Egyptians to be wounded by Israeli bombs since the Israeli offensive against Gaza began. They were taken to hospitals in el-Arish. There were no details of the gravity of their injuries.

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Meanwhile, Lord Levy, Tony Blair's former special envoy to the Middle East, claims George Bush bears much of the responsibility for the Gaza bloodshed.

Writing in today's Mail on Sunday, Lord Levy says: 'Despite Blair's repeated attempts to convince Washington otherwise, President George W. Bush Showed near-zero interest or engagement in Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy during the first seven years of his presidency'.

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