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Wed 01 Jan 2008Israeli strike kills 18 in Gaza Strip
MIDDLE EAST:Just a day after Israel and the Palestinians started negotiations on a resolution of the Middle East conflict, 18 Palestinians were killed yesterday in fighting with Israeli forces, who moved into the Gaza Strip overnight on Monday in an operation aimed at deterring Palestinian fighters from firing rockets into Israel.
In Israel, a volunteer from Ecuador, who was working on a kibbutz near the Gaza border fence, was shot and killed by a Palestinian sniper.
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