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| Gaza girl killed in border clash | Gaza girl killed in border clash |
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| A 17-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire. | A 17-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire. |
| After initial denials, Israeli army officials said the girl was killed by Israeli troops during a clash with Palestinian militants on Thursday. | After initial denials, Israeli army officials said the girl was killed by Israeli troops during a clash with Palestinian militants on Thursday. |
| Reports say that two others were injured in the exchange in central Gaza near the Israeli border. | |
| The Gaza-Israel border has been quiet, except for sporadic violence, since Israel launched a devastating three-week campaign in Gaza in late December. | The Gaza-Israel border has been quiet, except for sporadic violence, since Israel launched a devastating three-week campaign in Gaza in late December. |
| Six months after the offensive, Gaza remains under blockade, a state of affairs Israel says will continue while its soldier Gilad Shalit remains in Hamas captivity. | |
| Reports named the 17-year-old girl as Hyam Ayash, a resident of the Deir al-Balah refugee camp. | |
| West Bank violence | |
| Separately in the West Bank, a Palestinian woman carrying a toy gun was shot and wounded by Israel soldiers as she approached a checkpoint, the Israeli military says. | |
| Reports suggest the woman was 18 years old. | |
| Also in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority has stepped up arrests against people suspected of Hamas membership. | |
| A Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament said that the number of Hamas detainees had almost doubled from 460 to 890. | |
| Reports say that members of the rival Fatah faction have also been arrested in the Gaza Strip. | |
| BBC Jerusalem correspondent Paul Wood says none of this bodes well for the Egyptian brokered effort to get Hamas and Fatah into a unity government. |