An Israeli army officer was killed in a Palestinian ambush Wednesday in the southern Gaza Strip. Capt. Haggai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, was mortally wounded as his unit was searching for tunnels used to smuggle weapons into Gaza from Egypt, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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