Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in a Gaza Strip clash. Soldiers patrolling the Gaza-Egypt border fired on a squad of Islamic Jihad gunmen who approached their outpost Wednesday, killing one terrorist. Witnesses in the nearby town of Rafah said a Palestinian passerby also was slain by Israeli fire.
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