Israeli warplanes attack Gaza

    GAZA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes carried out several airstrikes（空袭） in the Gaza Strip early Monday despite attempts by Gaza's Hamas rulers to enforce a shaky ceasefire（停火）.
    The F-16 jets struck two training sites for the military wing of Islamic Hamas movement in the southern Gaza Strip and in the north of Gaza City, security sources said.
    Loud sounds of blasts were heard through the Strip and air concussion¹ shaked houses within an area of a square kilometer near the targeted sites, residents and witnesses said.
    Fighter jets and reconnaissance（无人驾驶侦察机） drones kept hovering² overhead.
    The airstrikes caused no casualties since Hamas, which controls Gaza, was expecting them and kept its security and military sites evacuated³.
    The raids are the first Israeli army's response to Saturday's mortar⁴ barrage⁵ which wounded two foreign workers in an Israeli community village in Western Negev.
    The smaller Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for firing the mortars⁶. A day earlier, an Israeli soldier was killed by "friendly fire," after two army units engaged with Palestinian militants⁷ on the Gaza-Israel border.
    On Sunday, Hamas asked Gaza armed groups to remain committed to the shaky ceasefire which followed Israel's major military operation here two years ago.
    Hamas says it does not want another Operation Cast Lead, the codename of a three-week offensive which killed up to 1,400 Palestinians, to happen again in the coastal⁸ enclave which is merely recovering from the war's effects.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 concussion   

n.脑震荡；震动

参考例句：

• He was carried off the field with slight concussion.他因轻微脑震荡给抬离了现场。
• She suffers from brain concussion.她得了脑震荡。

2 hovering   

鸟( hover的现在分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫

参考例句：

• The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升机在离发射台一百米的上空盘旋。
• I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我犹豫不决今晚是听音乐会还是看戏。

3 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

4 mortar   

n.灰浆，灰泥；迫击炮；v.把…用灰浆涂接合

参考例句：

• The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
• The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。

5 barrage   

n.火力网，弹幕

参考例句：

• The attack jumped off under cover of a barrage.进攻在炮火的掩护下开始了。
• The fierce artillery barrage destroyed the most part of the city in a few minutes.猛烈的炮火几分钟内便毁灭了这座城市的大部分地区。

6 mortars   

n.迫击炮( mortar的名词复数 )；砂浆；房产；研钵

参考例句：

• They could not move their heavy mortars over the swampy ground. 他们无法把重型迫击炮移过那片沼泽地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Where the hell are his mortars? 他有迫击炮吗？ 来自教父部分

7 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

8 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。