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On Saturday, Israel and Palestinian militants unleashed salvos of fire for a fifth day, with the Islamic Jihad militant group launching dozens more rockets and the Israeli military pounding targets inside the Gaza Strip.Missile shrapnel that slammed into an agricultural community in Israel s southern Negev desert severely wounded two Palestinians from Gaza in their 40s who had been working in Israel and moderately wounded another 36-year-old man, Israeli medics said.But in a reminder of the combustible situation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp near the northern city of Nablus, sparking a firefight that killed two Palestinians.The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two as 32-year-old Said Mesha and 19-year-old Adnan Araj. At least three other Palestinians were wounded in the raid, the latest of near-daily Israeli arrest operations against suspected militants in the territory. Palestinians inspect the rubble at the site of an airstrike that the Israeli military said targeted the house of an Islamic Jihad member,
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TOKYO -- The world s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She had been hospitalized since January. Tajima, born on Aug. 4, 1900, was the last known person born in the 19th century. She reportedly had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren. Her town of Kikai is in Kagosh
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An Israeli raid on a Gaza refugee camp killed eight Palestinians on Tuesday in the worst violence in the Gaza Strip in two months mdash; just hours after a high-level Egyptian peace mission to Israel.Monday s visit by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was marred by a confrontation with Palestinian extremists at the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam s third-holiest site that landed him briefly in the hospital.Israel earlier told Maher it would abide by a cease-fire with the Palestinians, though it would not sign a truce with militant groups.Early Tuesday, about 40 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles entered the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border, Palestinians said.Eight Palestinians mdash; five milita
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