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GAZA-Israeli troops and armored vehicles crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing 10 Palestinian militants, including nine from the Islamist Hamas group, and a civilian.Israeli forces exchanged fire with gunmen in al-Maghazi refugee camp, and some militants said they fired rocket-propelled grenades at the troops.Medics said 10 Palestinian militants and a civilian were killed and 20 people, including children, wounded. A Hamas cameraman who was injured by what witnesses said was a tank shell was seen later shot in the legs as he lay on the ground.Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, prime minister of a unity government that President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah dismissed after Hamas routed his forces in Gaza last month, condemned what he called Israel's "military escalation" and "criminal massacre".Haniyeh said Palestinian gunmen had the right to respond.Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005 but has pressed ahead with periodic raids aimed at halting rocket fire at the Jewish state, since Hamas's rout of Western-backed Abbas's Fatah group last month....
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