Israeli Army Denies Occupying Palestinian Police PostAn official in Israel Defense Forces' spokesman office categorically denied media reports that they had occupied a Palestinian police post in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.The official told Xinhua that there were fierce gun battles between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen near the Erez crossing between Israel and the Palestinian self-rule Gaza earlier Tuesday. During the battles, the Israeli army "may" seized a building " from which the Palestinian terrorists shot," and the building may have been used by Palestinian policemen in the past but had been abandoned for a long time, according to the official. Earlier, reports said that heavy gunfire was exchanged throughout the day in several points across Gaza and witnesses said the Israeli army fired tank shells at the Khan Yunis refugee camp, in which at least two dozens Palestinians had been wounded. Meanwhile, the clashes between the two sides also escalated Tuesday across the West Bank. The two sides had engaged in bloody clashes for more than four and a half months, during which over 400 people had been killed, most of them Palestinians, and more than 15,000 others wounded. |
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