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Three Palestinians, Israeli soldier die in violence
Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians, including a 10-year-old girl, in occupied territories on Thursday and Islamic militants killed a soldier in a raid on a Jewish settlement, witnesses and the army said. Witnesses said troops stationed outside Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza killed the girl as she walked to school. Military sources said troops shot back after coming under mortar fire and that the girl's death was being probed.
In the West Bank city of Qalqilya, Israeli forces killed a senior Hamas militant, the army said. At the nearby Jenin refugee camp, troops on a hunt for militants shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian. The army said the youth was armed with a gun but Palestinian witnesses said he only threw rocks at the soldiers. Palestinians want the West Bank and Gaza, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, for a state. |
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