Israeli troops killed four Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and one Israeli was killed. Israeli soldier Sgt. Avihu Keinan, 22, was killed during the raid Thursday into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza in a battle that also left dead an Islamic Jihad leader and Hamas man. Outside the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli troops killed the local Jihad leader and another Jihad gunman in a clash at their hideout. Hamas on Wednesday rejected a cease-fire call by Yasser Arafat.
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