Israeli troops killed two members of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction who were planting a bomb in the Gaza Strip. Israel also shelled what it said is a mortar factory – Palestinians describe it as a stone-cutting factory – in a refugee camp.
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