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Israeli tanks kill Palestinian militant in Gaza incursion: medics
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A Palestinian man inspects the damage after an Israeli incursion into the village of Abbassan outside the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Israeli tanks pushed into Gaza and killed a Palestinian militant on Saturday after the army lost two soldiers, in the heaviest clashes since the Gaza war ended 14 months ago, medics said.
ABBASSAN, Gaza Strip (AFP) - – Israeli tanks pushed into Gaza and killed a Palestinian militant on Saturday after the army lost two soldiers, in the heaviest clashes since the Gaza war ended 14 months ago, medics said.
At least seven Palestinians were also wounded when a tank fired a shell in the village of Abbassan near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, Palestinian medics said.
The Israeli military launched the incursion late on Friday after a firefight in which two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded, one of them seriously.
It was the worst spate of violence in the besieged Hamas-ruled coastal territory since the Gaza war of December 2008-January 2009.
Villagers said tanks, bulldozers and jeeps spearheaded the late-night incursion backed by helicopters, drawing fire from fighters of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
A two-storey house was demolished and another damaged in the operation before the troops returned to the Israeli side of the border before dawn, residents said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the incursion was carried out "to remove infrastructure used by the terrorists to carry out (Friday's) attack."
A tank had fired a shell after identifying a man apparently planting an explosive device, she said.
Palestinians named the man killed as Hassan Arafat, a 23-year-old member of Al-Quds Brigades.
Hundreds of villagers poured onto the streets of Abbassan on Saturday for the funeral of Arafat, vowing "revenge against Tel Aviv," while Islamic Jihad leaders called for a new uprising against Israel.
General Yoav Galant, the army's commander for the southern region, said one of the Israelis killed in Friday's clash died when his own grenade exploded and that a total of four Palestinians had died.
But Palestinian medics confirmed only the one death in Saturday's incursion.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza, claimed responsibility for the killing of the two soldiers.
The group said Friday's clashes erupted after Israeli soldiers "crossed 500 metres (yards) inside the border."
The Israeli army says the clash occurred after troops spotted militants trying to plant explosives near the security fence on the border and then pursued them into Gaza.
Palestinian militants early on Saturday fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel, according to the army. The projectile landed in a field, causing neither casualties nor damage.
About 35 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since the start of the year, and more than 330 since the end of the 22-day Israeli offensive in Gaza in January 2009 aimed at halting rocket fire.
Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the conflict, which was followed by a year of relative calm.
The latest flare-up has added to tensions in the region, with Israel already under international pressure to halt Jewish settlement construction in annexed east Jerusalem.
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