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21 Palestinians and three Israelis killed in Gaza fighting
Twenty-one Palestinians were killed by army fire and at least 108 wounded as Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp today.
Three Israelis - two soldiers and a woman jogging in a Jewish settlement - were killed.
The highest single-day Palestinian casualty count in four months came after a Palestinian rocket killed two children in an Israeli border town.
Three Israelis - two soldiers and a woman jogging in a Jewish settlement - were killed.
The highest single-day Palestinian casualty count in four months came after a Palestinian rocket killed two children in an Israeli border town.
Israel's defence minister decided after consultations with army commanders to widen the military campaign and send more troops to Gaza, a security official said.
His plan for a large-scale operation was to be presented to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his inner Cabinet later in the day. Previous Israeli military operations in northern Gaza - including 12 major ones - have not been able to stop the rockets.
The heaviest fighting raged in the Jebaliya refugee camp, just north of Gaza City. In the single deadliest incident, an Israeli tank fired a shell toward a group of Palestinian gunmen, killing at least seven people and wounding 23, many of them critically with loss of limbs.
The local Kamal Adwan hospital, which only has 25 beds, was overwhelmed as ambulances brought in the wounded. Two scorched bodies were carried in on stretchers. Two legless men were treated on the blood-covered hospital floor.
Ahmed Salem, 10, who was wounded by shrapnel in the leg, said the tank shell was fired from a tank at a U.N. school near Jebaliya's market. "I was hit and fell to the ground. The man lying next to me had no head," he said.
Hospital director Dr. Mahmoud Asali said that all the injured were in critical condition. "Some have lost their eyes. Others have lost limbs, and the martyrs are completely disfigured," he said, adding that at least four of the wounded were under the age of 14.
The army said soldiers fired the shell after gunmen in the market fired an explosive device and an anti-tank shell in their direction. Three soldiers were lightly hurt by the explosives, the army said.
Bulldozers also demolished 15 homes along a relatively narrow road leading into the camp, witnesses said, apparently to widen it and allow more tanks to get through. Armored vehicles avoided the booby-trapped main street in the camp.
"A bulldozer entered our living room and demolished half the house," said Hussein al-Jamal, a resident of the camp's Block 2, adding that he and his family fled, along with many of his neighbors.
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His plan for a large-scale operation was to be presented to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his inner Cabinet later in the day. Previous Israeli military operations in northern Gaza - including 12 major ones - have not been able to stop the rockets.
The heaviest fighting raged in the Jebaliya refugee camp, just north of Gaza City. In the single deadliest incident, an Israeli tank fired a shell toward a group of Palestinian gunmen, killing at least seven people and wounding 23, many of them critically with loss of limbs.
The local Kamal Adwan hospital, which only has 25 beds, was overwhelmed as ambulances brought in the wounded. Two scorched bodies were carried in on stretchers. Two legless men were treated on the blood-covered hospital floor.
Ahmed Salem, 10, who was wounded by shrapnel in the leg, said the tank shell was fired from a tank at a U.N. school near Jebaliya's market. "I was hit and fell to the ground. The man lying next to me had no head," he said.
Hospital director Dr. Mahmoud Asali said that all the injured were in critical condition. "Some have lost their eyes. Others have lost limbs, and the martyrs are completely disfigured," he said, adding that at least four of the wounded were under the age of 14.
The army said soldiers fired the shell after gunmen in the market fired an explosive device and an anti-tank shell in their direction. Three soldiers were lightly hurt by the explosives, the army said.
Bulldozers also demolished 15 homes along a relatively narrow road leading into the camp, witnesses said, apparently to widen it and allow more tanks to get through. Armored vehicles avoided the booby-trapped main street in the camp.
"A bulldozer entered our living room and demolished half the house," said Hussein al-Jamal, a resident of the camp's Block 2, adding that he and his family fled, along with many of his neighbors.
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