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A Palestinian gunman setting up an explosive device at a street corner in Gaza City, near the Nahal Oz crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel on April 9. (AP)
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IDF troops wound West Bank Palestinian trying to enter Israel
By Avi Isaacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
Tags: Islamic Jihad, IDF, Gaza 

Israel Defense Forces soldiers late Saturday shot and wounded a Palestinian man after he attempted to cross the West Bank security fence into Israel near the settlement of Elkana.

Troops shot the man as he jumped up onto the fence, they had earlier called on him to stop and had threatened to shoot him if he did not do so. When the Palestinian did not respond to their calls, they shot and wounded him.

IDF soldiers subsequently took him for treatment in a hospital in Israel.
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Earlier on Saturday evening, IDF troops caught two Palestinians who had infiltrated into Israel from the Gaza Strip near the Kissufim border crossing.

Security forces detained the pair, who were apparently unarmed, for questioning and to clarify the circumstances of the incident.

A short time earlier, IDF soldiers had hunted for the two men after having been alerted to a suspected infiltration from the coastal strip.

IDF troops searched the area near Kissufim, where the Palestinians were suspected of having crossed into Israel proper.

Residents of local Israeli communities were asked to be alert.

Palestinian militants have recently mounted a number of attacks on the coastal strip's border crossings with Israel.

Most recently, Hamas gunmen wounded 13 Israeli soldiers in a well-coordinated assault by explosives-laden vehicles against the Kerem Shalom crossing last Saturday.

Three days before the attack on Kerem Shalom, Palestinian gunmen killed three IDF soldiers from the Givati infantry Brigade in an ambush next to the Gaza Strip security fence. In another attack the previous week, Gaza terrorists killed two Israeli civilian workers at the Nahal Oz crossing's fuel depot.

These attacks came as Egypt was attempting to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza.


Palestinians: 14-year-old girl killed in Gaza clashes
A 14-year-old Palestinian girl was killed Saturday during an IDF arrest raid in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medics.

The apparent target of the raid was Hassan Marouf, a local Hamas leader. The fighting took place around his house, and IDF troops withdrew after detaining him, Hamas officials said. The army would not comment on Marouf's arrest.

His 14-year old daughter, Mariam, was killed by shrapnel from heavy machine guns, medics in Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza said. Her mother was injured in the clashes.

Nine other Palestinians were also wounded in the fighting, three of them
critically, medics said.

An IDF spokeswoman refused to comment on the incursion but said the army carried out an air strike against armed militants in the area.

The clashes began before dawn Saturday when an Israel Defense Forces undercover force entered a border area. Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants fired at the force using machine guns, mortars and homemade bombs.

The IDF sent in dozens of tanks, and aircraft provided cover. Medics say the aircraft have launched five missile strikes since before dawn.

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      1.   dozen of tanks to kill a 14 yo girl... 09:39  |  BV 26/04/08
      2.   14 year old girl, just one more sad little victim... 10:13  |  Silvienne 26/04/08
      3.   The IDF sent in dozens of tanks, and aircraft provided cover 10:16  |  Silvienne 26/04/08
      4.   To Silvienne #2 12:10  |  dovale 26/04/08
      5.   14-year-old girl dies 12:12  |  Jerusalem Jew 26/04/08
      6.   Any activity that may save the life of one Israeli..... 12:39  |  Rafi 26/04/08
      7.   Not surprising 12:40  |  Paul Wood 26/04/08
      8.   It was a clash: Palestinians fought back endangering children. 13:07  |  Yered Shmuel 26/04/08
      9.   2&3 Silvienne,greetings,these are not random acts by the evil 13:22  |  lakshmi 26/04/08
      10.   hamas use their own children as human shields 13:36  |  odles 26/04/08
      11.   poor girl, the terrorist` daughter 13:44  |  KUTW 26/04/08
      12.   Get the facts right BV and Silvienne 13:50  |  surreal 26/04/08
      13.   When Hamas stops the terror against Israel, peace is theirs 13:59  |  The Equalizer 26/04/08
      14.   The girl could also have been learning the job 14:08  |  KUTW 26/04/08
      15.   lakshmi`s greater palestine is the real problem. 14:21  |  odles 26/04/08
      16.   #11 KUTW 14:46  |  Chris Linthwaite 26/04/08
      17.   a daughter from a Hamas leader..wrong time wrong place wrong side 14:58  |  Marco 26/04/08
      18.   ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN TERROR MUST ALL END. 15:03  |  JH 26/04/08
      19.   Israel`s army is building up its reputation... 15:09  |  Ben Alofs 26/04/08
      20.   chris -the sins of the fathers 15:11  |  odles 26/04/08
      21.   #3 Silly Vain - Crocodile tears 15:14  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      22.   condolences 15:18  |  Bob 26/04/08
      23.   #3 Silly Vain 15:19  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      24.   Re #6 15:21  |  BG 26/04/08
      25.   # 9 lakshmi...the evil lies with Hamas 15:23  |  Lynn 26/04/08
      26.   #16 Linthwaite - Not quite so 15:28  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      27.   #5 Jerusalem Jew 15:29  |  Mart 26/04/08
      28.   # 2 Silvienne....when being arrested, 15:31  |  Lynn 26/04/08
      29.   This is the negative sympathy 15:38  |  S. Colte 26/04/08
      30.   Palestinians: 14-year-old girl killed in Gaza clashes 15:44  |  steve 26/04/08
      31.   the pro-israeli crowd 15:54  |  rm 26/04/08
      32.   Learn to read 16:01  |  duncecap 26/04/08
      33.   Chris Linthwaite 16:05  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      34.   Chris Linthwaite 16:06  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      35.   #1 To the frenchman 16:11  |  John Allen 26/04/08
      36.   Lakshmi 16:12  |  H 26/04/08
      37.   #9 lak- ing a-lot. 16:18  |  John Allen 26/04/08
      38.   Collateral damage- plain and simple 16:24  |  Avrum 26/04/08
      39.   #16 Chris, who are you the offsrpring of? 16:24  |  John Allen 26/04/08
      40.   Sad 16:34  |  Stranger 26/04/08
      41.   They are coward who hid behind women and children 16:46  |  Jane 26/04/08
      42.   Israel does not occupy Gaza??? Please. 16:55  |  J 26/04/08
      43.   To rm- No in most cased I do not feel bad... 16:55  |  Avrum 26/04/08
      44.   Mart 22 17:05  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      45.   #34 John Allen 17:07  |  Chris Linthwaite 26/04/08
      46.   rm 26 17:08  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      47.   ShanananananaS? its obvious the IDF doesn`t care who they kill 17:14  |  get real 26/04/08
      48.   IDF soldiers, guilty or innocent....???? 17:18  |  Swiss (Dino) 26/04/08
      49.   Another child dead and the vultures are......... 17:30  |  Deborah 26/04/08
      50.   BY ANY CHANCE... 17:31  |  Stevo 26/04/08
      51.   dont use hides among chirldren 17:38  |  sam i am 26/04/08
      52.   Oh-poor girl, boo hoo 17:44  |  Moshe 26/04/08
      53.   Silly Vain - In another forum 17:44  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      54.   Tanks approach your home...come out with a white Flag 17:47  |  Rob 26/04/08
      55.   #19 Ben Alofs - you missed the bragging 17:57  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      56.   J 42 17:59  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      57.   #48 Swiss (Dino) 18:04  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      58.   Chris Linthawite - Your family may not be 18:06  |  * BEN JABO 26/04/08
      59.   #Avrum and his `collateral damage` 18:21  |  Ben Alofs 26/04/08
      60.   48 Dino guilty or innocent? By Dino`s logic - guilty! 18:25  |  I 26/04/08
      61.   Tanks approach your home...come out with a white Flag 18:28  |  Rob 26/04/08
      62.   42J Was Germany occupied in 1944? No, but 18:32  |  I 26/04/08
      63.   42 J Was Japan occupied in 1944? No but... 18:35  |  I 26/04/08
      64.   Sixty year old problem with a dead14yr. old girl 18:36  |  Zev 26/04/08
      65.   #58 Ben Jabo 18:47  |  Chris Linthwaite 26/04/08
      66.   There is actually no prrof from this report 18:48  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      67.   sam i am 51 18:50  |  ChanahS 26/04/08
      68.   complaining is easier agianst the Israeli government which.. 18:51  |  Marco 26/04/08
      69.   Safe to say # 45 18:52  |  Golani 26/04/08
      70.   #52 Moshe 18:58  |  H 26/04/08