Reuters: Brothers wounded in rocket strike 11 February

Furious residents of the southern Israeli town of Sderot barracked the defence minister as he visited the scene of the attack in which two Israelis, one an eight-year-old boy, were wounded. Others have been protesting in Jerusalem where they blocked a major road into the city.

The security barrier that runs between Israeli-controlled lands and the West Bank is now 450 kilometers long -- and growing. Israel says the barrier is needed to prevent attacks on the country and Jewish settlements. But the Palestinians denounce it as an "apartheid wall" aimed at grabbing their land and undermining the viability of their promised state. One family's home straddles the dividing line, and is surrounded by Israeli barriers on all sides -- leaving them bound in a no-man's land.

The shooting attack had been greeted with celebrations in the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli offensive in recent days killed more than 120 Palestinians, about half of whom were identified as civilians.

Ten-year-old Yossi Haimov was dragged by his sister into a nearby grocery store after he was hit in the arm during an attack by Palestinian militants.

At least one Israeli was killed in the attack, the first suicide bombing in Israel for more than a year. The attack took place in a shopping centre in Dimona, where the country's top secret nuclear facility is located.. A source in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction said Fatah-linked militants carried out the attack along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The Marxist PFLP's founder George Habash, who died last week, opposed peace with the Jewish state.

Visiting US President George W. Bush paid a 60th anniversary tribute to Israel as a democracy challenged by "terrorists", and underlined Washington's alliance with the Jewish state. He also condemned the "murder" of innocents on Wednesday following a Palestinian rocket attack that wounded 14 people in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.

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The attack hit three men in the town of Beit Hanoun according to medics and Hamas officials. An Israeli military spokesman said the attack was part of an effort to stop militants launching rockets into southern Israeli towns.

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