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Israeli tanks enter refugee camps
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel's military rolled into refugee camps in central and southern Gaza Wednesday night, deploying soldiers, tanks and engineering forces equipped with bulldozers, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday. The incursions came after Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians in separate incidents near Jewish settlements in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli sources said. Israeli forces entered El-Bureij refugee camp and in El Mughazi in central Gaza, and in Rafah in southern Gaza. During a check of buildings belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in El-Bureij, Israeli forces reported coming under "massive gunfire" and lobbing of grenades. The PFLP is a Palestinian militant group that has committed international terrorist attacks and has conducted attacks against Israeli or moderate Arab targets, according to the U.S. State Department. Palestinian security sources reported Israeli forces entering the El-Bureij and Nusseirat refugee camps. They said one Palestinian was injured. Five Palestinians killedIsraeli police on Thursday shot a gunman who entered a home in Maor, a Jewish township near the so-called Green Line, the border with the West Bank, Israeli police spokesman Gil Kleiman told CNN. (Full story) He said the man wore "full battle dress" and carried an M-16 rifle, firing as he went into the house. Somehow the people inside the home stopped the man from shooting, said Kleiman, adding: "It's not clear if there was a problem with his weapon." Kleiman said neighbors, including some retired military officers, cordoned off the home and the neighborhood, making sure the suspect could not escape. After a brief standoff, the gunman was determined to be a threat to police in the area and was shot, Kleiman said. He said authorities were checking the man's identity. Israeli police also were searching Thursday for terrorists they believe killed an elderly man whose body was found in a burned out car in the north Jordan Valley. In a statement received by CNN, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- the militant offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement -- stated that it killed an Israeli settler in the Jordan Valley. Israeli authorities said they went to the area and found in the burned-out car the body of Masud Alon, 70, of Menahemia, who was reported missing by his family. Elsewhere, Israeli army troops shot and killed a suspected Palestinian suicide bomber in a valley between two Jewish settlements in the West Bank late Wednesday, military sources said. Also on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinian teenagers trying to enter a buffer zone dividing a Palestinian area of northern Gaza and the Jewish settlement of Elei Sinai. The IDF said the boys were armed with wire cutters and a small knife. Palestinian Cabinet member and chief negotiator Saeb Erakat on Thursday responded to the deaths of the teenagers. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the killing of Muhammad and Tarek Dawous, ages 15 and 14, and Jihad Abed, age 14, by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza strip," he said. "The death amongst Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army is increasing at an alarming rate and this requires international intervention," Erakat added.
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