Palestinians: 6 die in territories; Qassam hits house in Sderot

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Six Palestinians, including a 17-year-old girl, were killed Saturday by Israel Defense Forces and Border Police troops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.

Palestinian sources say IDF troops surrounded the house in the West Bank city of Jenin in which the 17-year-old, named as Bushra al-Wahish, was located, and ordered all its inhabitants to leave.

The troops were reportedly searching for the girl's brother, a wanted Islamic Jihad militant. It is unclear why she remained in the house.

Three militants were killed in the city Saturday afternoon, and a policeman was killed earlier in the day in a nearby village.

On Saturday night, a 37-year-old Palestinian man was killed and another wounded when an Israel Air Force aircraft fired a missile at a vehicle in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Jihad militant group described the man as a civilian but said he was riding in a car with two other militants, who were seriously wounded.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851024.html

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1. And now comes the response from the other side.....

GAZA CITY (AP) -- The Islamic militant group Hamas urged Palestinians to ratchet up attacks against Israel on Sunday, after nine Palestinians were killed in a surge of fighting over the weekend.

The upswing in violence threatened to derail tentative steps toward peace taken recently by Israeli and Palestinian leaders and unravel a 5-month-old cease-fire in Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Sunday that Palestinians must brace for a new round of confrontation.

"The blood of our people is not cheap," Barhoum said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press, calling on Hamas fighters and other Palestinian militant groups to "be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."



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