Soldiers kill 6 in West Bank and Gaza
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December 27, 2009, Sunday
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ISRAELI soldiers shot and killed six Palestinians in two separate incidents yesterday in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence in months.
Three of those who were killed belonged to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. His top aide accused Israel of inflaming tensions and seeking to torpedo US-backed efforts to renew peace talks.
The violence came a day before the anniversary of a three-week Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Peace talks have been frozen since.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Hamas-ruled coastal Gaza, and three West Bank militants accused of killing a Jewish settler in a roadside shooting on Thursday.
A Hamas security source said the three shot in Gaza at daybreak were apparently civilians collecting scrap metal in an industrial zone near the Israeli border.
In the West Bank, Palestinian medics and witnesses said soldiers surrounded the homes of three members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group of Abbas' Fatah group, and then killed all three.
"This grave Israeli escalation shows Israel is not interested in peace," said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a top aide to Abbas.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers had launched a "pinpointed raid to capture the perpetrators of the shooting attack."
Three of those who were killed belonged to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. His top aide accused Israel of inflaming tensions and seeking to torpedo US-backed efforts to renew peace talks.
The violence came a day before the anniversary of a three-week Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Peace talks have been frozen since.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Hamas-ruled coastal Gaza, and three West Bank militants accused of killing a Jewish settler in a roadside shooting on Thursday.
A Hamas security source said the three shot in Gaza at daybreak were apparently civilians collecting scrap metal in an industrial zone near the Israeli border.
In the West Bank, Palestinian medics and witnesses said soldiers surrounded the homes of three members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group of Abbas' Fatah group, and then killed all three.
"This grave Israeli escalation shows Israel is not interested in peace," said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a top aide to Abbas.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers had launched a "pinpointed raid to capture the perpetrators of the shooting attack."
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