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Five IDF soldiers wounded, five Palestinians killed in Gaza fighting
By Yuval Azoulay and Avi Issacharoff ,Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies
Tags: Palestinians, Gaza, Israel 

Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded Sunday, one of them moderately, and five Palestinians killed in series of incidents in the Gaza Strip.

The fighting, which ended when the IDF withdrew at nightfall, also wounded at least 34 Palestinians, including four women, seven children and 15 gunmen.

The soldiers were hurt by anti-tank missiles fired by militants in two separate incidents during an operation in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
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In the first incident, one soldier was moderately wounded and two others lightly hurt by shrapnel. A short time later, a second missile hit the troops, lightly wounding two soldiers.

All five of the soldiers were evacuated by helicopter to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.

Later, two additional troops were lightly hurt by an anti-tank missile in the same area.

On Sunday, a Palestinian civilian was killed as troops battled militants near Bureij, Palestinian officials said. Later, a Palestinian woman was killed when a projectile struck a house.

Earlier in the day, IDF soldiers killed two armed Palestinians who were seen appraoching the troops in a nearby security zone, which is closed to Palestinian movement.

Also Sunday, an Israel Air Force aircraft targeted a rocket launch site in northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, killing one of two armed men spotted there, the IDF said.

Palestinian officials identified the dead man as a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group allied with Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers.

The PRC is allied to Hamas and claimed responsibility for firing 26 mortar shells and seven Qassam rockets into Israel on Saturday.

Palestinian officials identified the dead man as PRC member Mohammed Abu Uda.

IDF infantry and armored corps troops entered the Bureij camp early Sunday morning, penetrating some 1.5-2 kilometers into Palestinian territory.

The army said the operation was routine, adding that such raids are carried out on a near daily basis in order to distance militants from the security fence with southern Israel.

Prior to Sunday's operation, roughly 30 Palestinians had been killed in IDF operations in the Gaza Strip since last week, all but two of them militants. The two civilians, both women, were killed when an IDF tank fired on a house from which militants had directed heavy fire at the IDF soldiers.

A military source said "this figure should not lead us to pat ourselves on the back. Rather more than anything it shows the high motivation of Gaza terrorist groups to carry out attacks, and our operational approach is to thwart [the attacks] well before they reach the fences."

"If it were not for these operations," he continued, "and if the terrorists were able to take position adjacent to the fence, this would also alter the range of the Qassam rockets, which would strike deeper in Israeli territory."

The fighting comes a day after Palestinian militants fired a barrage of seven Qassam rockets at the western Negev town of Sderot. Six of the rockets struck open fields in the western Negev, while one damaged several homes and cars in Sderot. Two people were taken to hospital after the attack.

Meanwhile, a Hamas man was killed late Saturday by IDF fire in Beit Hanun, and three others wounded. The IDF said ground troops targeted and hit two armed men but gave no additional details.

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