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| Fierce Gaza clashes break out | Fierce Gaza clashes break out |
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| Reports from Gaza say fierce fighting has broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen near the Kissufim border crossing. | Reports from Gaza say fierce fighting has broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen near the Kissufim border crossing. |
| The Israeli army says one soldier was killed and another three injured when a bomb exploded beside their jeep. | |
| In northern Gaza, a member of a militant group had been killed in an Israeli air strike, medics said. | |
| The clashes come three days after Israel ended a major offensive in which more than 120 Palestinians were killed. | The clashes come three days after Israel ended a major offensive in which more than 120 Palestinians were killed. |
| The Israelis say the incursion was aimed at stopping rocket fire into Israel by Palestinian militants. | The Israelis say the incursion was aimed at stopping rocket fire into Israel by Palestinian militants. |
| Two Israeli soldiers and an Israeli civilian were also killed over the same period. | Two Israeli soldiers and an Israeli civilian were also killed over the same period. |
| Israeli tanks were rushed to the area in which the Israeli jeep was attacked and helicopters landed to evacuate the wounded, eyewitnesses say. | |
| One of the injured was seriously wounded, the Israeli military said. | |
| An official said the jeep was on a patrol in Gaza near the fence that marks the border between the Israel and the strip. | |
| Also on Thursday, a coalition of UK-based human rights and development groups published a report saying Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967. | |
| The report criticises Israel's blockade on Gaza as illegal collective punishment which fails to deliver security. |