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Israel kills two Palestinian militants in raid

Reuters | By, Gaza
Apr 01, 2008 11:54 AM IST

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants during a predawn raid in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Hamas Islamists and medical officials said.

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants during a predawn raid in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Hamas Islamists and medical officials said.

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Hamas said the two militants were the first from the Islamist group to be killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in nearly a month.

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An Israeli army spokeswoman said troops shot at two Palestinian militants who approached the force as they conducted a ground assault against what she called "terror infrastructure" in the Hamas-controlled territory.

Several others were taken for questioning, the army said.

The killings could challenge Egyptian-mediated efforts to broker a truce between the Jewish state and militant groups. Hamas has not claimed any cross-border rocket fire into Israeli towns since the beginning of March.

On Monday, an Israeli shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank whom the army said tried to stab Jewish settlers at a bus stop.

A Palestinian security source said the man killed was a civilian not affiliated with any militant group, and denied he attempted to attack Israelis.

The incident took place hours after Israel removed a West Bank checkpoint under a pledge to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ease restrictions on Palestinian travel in the occupied territory.

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