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| Israeli troops are reported to have killed six Palestinians - three in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank. | |
| An Israeli military spokeswoman said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate into Israel from Gaza were killed in an air strike. | An Israeli military spokeswoman said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate into Israel from Gaza were killed in an air strike. |
| Palestinian medics said three men from a militant group linked to Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction were killed in the West Bank city of Nablus. | |
| The killings mark one of the worst days of violence in the region in months. | |
| It comes two days after a Jewish settler was killed by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. | |
| The same militant group linked to the Fatah faction, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, later claimed responsibility for that attack - the first fatal shooting of an Israeli by militants in the occupied West Bank for eight months. | |
| The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the raid. | |
| The violence came a day before the anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. |