8 Palestinians Killed in Mideast Violence

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8 Palestinians Killed in Mideast Violence

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Despite restraint that was announced by both Israel and the Palestinians in an attempt to reach a ceasefire that would end more than 17 months of bloodshed, eight Palestinians were shot dead on Saturday alone in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian medical sources said.

Two Palestinians were killed in Rafah, one of them a 4-year-old girl, when Israeli army tanks and infantry troops raided Al Barazil neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip town.

In another development, Palestinian security sources said that two Islamic Hamas militants were killed on Saturday afternoon when they used grenades to attack an Israeli army patrol near the Jewish settlement of Dogit in the northern Gaza Strip.

Elsewhere, medical sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that two Palestinians were killed, including a 36-year-old teacher, as Israeli army tanks stationed West of Khan Younis fired several tank shells at the refugee camp.

Eyewitnesses in Kahn Younis said that the teacher, identified as Sobhi Abu Namoos, was leaving an elementary school in the camp on Saturday afternoon, when he was hit in the head by a tank's shell shrapnel.

On another occasion, Palestinian security sources said that one Palestinian militant from the Al Bureij refugee camp was killed at the Israeli army roadblock of Kissofim in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli army confirmed the killing.

an eighth Palestinian from Hebron died of his wounds on Saturday. The man was shot and seriously injured on Friday after Israeli troops entered the Al Hareya neighborhood in the same area.

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