The Israeli war machine frequently enters occupied Gaza, justifying its offensive operations as defensive attacks against rocket launching squads. The casualties of these incursions are most often innocent Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom are children.

Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters have clashed in the Gaza Strip, leaving one Israei soldier dead and two slightly wounded.

About 10 tanks and two bulldozers backed by helicopters moved before dawn about 500m into farming fields near the Bureij refugee camp, Palestinian witnesses said.

Hamas said that its fighters detonated two large mines in response, injuring soldiers.

The Israeli army said the soldier had been killed in an operation against “terror threats” and that when gunmen approached their troops, Israeli aircraft had fired on them and identified hitting them.

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