THREE Palestinians, including two children, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as troops pressed on with a massive nine-day-old incursion in the north, Palestinian medics and the Israeli army said.

The European Union was today urged to suspend preferential trade with Israel in a bid to stop more bloodshed in the Middle East.

THIRTEEN Palestinians and three Israelis were killed yesterday in fierce gunbattles in the northern Gaza Strip after a wave of Israeli air strikes, the worst fighting in the impoverished area in months.

An Israeli helicopter today fired a missile at a site Palestinian militants used to launch a rocket at a nearby Israeli town in the latest of a series of clashes in the northern Gaza strip.

UNDER cover of machine gun fire, Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and gunships fired missiles at two buildings early yesterday in what the military called a major drive to prevent Palestinian rocket fire from hitting Israel’s border towns.

A GUN battle erupted in northern Gaza yesterday, killing one militant, after Palestinian authorities tried to break up an outdoor Hamas training session on how to fire homemade rockets at Israel.

PALESTINIAN gunmen infiltrated a Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron and opened fire last night, killing at least three people and wounding eight, Israeli military sources said.

THE militant Hamas group, which has carried out scores of suicide bombings in Israel, yesterday urged Iraq to copy its tactics and send thousands of attackers with explosives strapped to their bodies into a battle against the West.

The militant Hamas group, which has carried out scores of suicide bombings in Israel, today urged Iraq to copy its tactics and send thousands of attackers with explosives strapped to their bodies into a battle against the West.

Israeli attack helicopters have fired rockets at police buildings in the area of the Jabaliya refugee camp next to Gaza City.