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A Palestinian firefighter extinguishes a fire from a beachside cafe after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP

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PETER YOUNG: A conflict with no end continues its bloody path

THOSE watching the hostilities between the Israelis and Palestinians unfold will surely be shocked by the violence that has erupted. It has been described by the UN as “utterly appalling”. The fighting, which has now entered a second week, is the most recent manifestation of a feud that continues to blight an historic landscape that has been torn apart by bloodshed for several centuries, and in recent decades it has intensified in what seems to have become a cyclical pattern.

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