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Article: Israeli Forces End Latest Gaza City Raid
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- February 19, 2003
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Dateline: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
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Israeli tanks and soldiers battled Palestinian militants in the streets
of Gaza City before dawn Wednesday in violence that left 11 Palestinians
dead, including a suicide bomber who tried to blow up a tank, Palestinians
said.
In the bloodiest incursion in three weeks, Israeli forces also destroyed
several homes and metal workshops, and damaged a school. Electricity
was cut to much of the city before the soldiers pulled out Wednesday
morning, about six hours after some 40 tanks entered the city's Shajaiyeh
neighborhood, according to the Palestinians.
The Israeli raid was the second in Gaza City since the militant Islamic ...