An explosion near an Israeli army checkpoint in the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian but caused no Israeli casualties on Saturday in another dent to a cease-fire vital to a U.S.-backed peace plan. Palestinian officials said two other Palestinians were wounded by the explosive device near Sufa checkpoint. It was not clear if it had been planted by the men caught up in the blast, which the Israeli army said occurred close to an Israeli patrol.
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In an operation in support of the six-day-old truce, Palestinian police raided a Gaza refugee camp and exchanged fire with militants they came to arrest after anti-tank missile and mortar bomb attacks on Jewish settlements and Israeli soldiers. A policeman, a militant and a bystander were wounded in the fighting late on Friday in the Shati camp, witnesses said. "Palestinian security forces have been given orders...not to tolerate (cease-fire) violators and to bring them to court," Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr said on Saturday. |