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Palestinians: IDF kills 4 in Gaza; Negev man wounded by mortar
The Israel Defense Forces killed four Palestinians - one militant and tthree civilians - in three separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and an Israeli man was lightly wounded by a mortar shell fired from the coastal territory. The violence came as members of the diplomatic-security cabinet met to discuss a truce with Hamas in Gaza. It was decided in the meeting not to launch a much-touted invasion of the Gaza Strip in order to give Egyptian-brokered truce efforts more time to succeed. On Wednesday afternoon, an IDF spokeswoman reported that an air strike was carried out in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a civilian. Earlier, a nine-year-old girl was killed by an IDF tank shell. In a cross-border operation, IDF troops shot and killed a Hamas gunman and a civilian, medical workers and Hamas officials said. The army said a ground force had opened fire at militants who had been attempting to fire rockets into Israel from a built-up area in the Strip. Posted by: Fred 2008-06-12 |
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