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Israeli troops have killed six Palestinians - three in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank. | Israeli troops have killed six Palestinians - three in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank. |
The Israeli military said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Gaza were killed in an air strike near the Erez crossing. | The Israeli military said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Gaza were killed in an air strike near the Erez crossing. |
It is the largest number of deaths in a day since the Gaza conflict a year ago. | It is the largest number of deaths in a day since the Gaza conflict a year ago. |
Separately, Israeli forces said they had killed three men - who were suspected of killing a Jewish settler - in the West Bank city of Nablus. | |
Palestinian sources in Nablus say two of those killed were militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the militant faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party. | |
The faction was one of two groups which said they had killed the settler, a father of seven, two days ago - the first fatal shooting of an Israeli by militants in the occupied West Bank for eight months. | |
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning and lasted for several hours. | Eyewitnesses said the Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning and lasted for several hours. |
They said there had not been a raid like this in Nablus for about a year and a half, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Jerusalem. | They said there had not been a raid like this in Nablus for about a year and a half, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Jerusalem. |
The violence came a day before the first anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. | |