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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 11:05 30/12/2007 Report: IDF kills 2 Gaza militants trying to place bomb near fence By Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service Tags: Israel, Gaza, West Bank, IDF Israel Defense Forces troops shot and killed two Palestinian militants Sunday as they tried to place a bomb on the security fence along the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported. On Saturday, two Palestinians who were carrying knives were detained for interrogation at a roadblock outside the West Bank city of Nablus. Also on Saturday, an explosive device detonated near an IDF patrol along the Gaza border fence, damaging an IDF vehicle, and 15 mortar shells were fired at Israel from Gaza over the weekend. No injuries were reported in any of these incidents. A gag order was lifted Saturday on a joint Shin Bet-IDF operation in which a truck loaded with six tons of potassium nitrate was captured at a West Bank checkpoint a few weeks ago. It appears that the chemical compound was hidden in sugar bags belonging to the European Union humanitarian aid. Security sources said that the substance is banned in the West Bank in Gaza because it is used to produce explosives and Qassam rockets. Advertisement Early on Friday, the IDF killed one of Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia's bodyguards during an arrest operation in Ramallah. Israel has been limiting its operations in the West Bank, ruled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as it negotiates a peace agreement with Abbas' government. But late Thursday, the military sent a team into a suburb of Ramallah, the seat of Abbas' government, to arrest 23-year-old Mu'tasem Sharif, a member of the Palestinian security forces who the military said was implicated in armed activity against Israel and had provided weapons to other militants, who were involved in terror attacks, including the killing of the settler Ido Zoldan last month. "He opened fire at troops and they fired back, killing him," the IDF said. Palestinian security officials denied that the bodyguard had fired at the troops Bookmark to del.icio.us Au revoir Assad Sarkozy says he'll cut ties with Syria over the Lebanon presidential crisis. Women march on Women in Black marks its 20th year, but the occupation continues.   1.   Why on earth... 11:05  |  MarkC 30/12/07   2.   "He Opened Fire At Troops" 11:09  |  Clickfool 30/12/07   3.   Dolt in "Sussex" doesn`t know real terror 11:22  |  Velvel 30/12/07   4.   Clickfool and if there were `witnesses` 11:51  |  Iz Ray Leigh 30/12/07   5.   EU humanitarian aid is arabs exploited against Israel 12:00  |  Joseph E . 30/12/07   6.   velvel 14:16  |  USA 2 30/12/07   7.   The news of the IDF is supplied by the IDF 14:24  |  Natallie Durson 30/12/07   8.   Natalie Durson 14:50  |  H 30/12/07   9.   More Terrorism by Israel... Another day, another war crime 15:27  |  POP 30/12/07   10.   natallie & clickfool 15:47  |  leo 30/12/07   11.   Its a war crime, everytime they are busted, 02:49  |  Cristo 31/12/07

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