Portion below (from Voices of Palestine); whole thing here: | http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8EpCkltO7xusVK39uhEeSrcn6FQ
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Three Israeli soldiers and 17 Palestinians, one a cameraman for an international news agency, were killed on Wednesday as troops backed by helicopters stormed into the Gaza Strip.
Fadel Shana, 23, a Reuters cameraman, was critically wounded when a missile hit his vehicle in the central Gaza Strip. He died after being taken to hospital, Dr Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, told AFP.
An AFP photographer driving behind the Reuters jeep, which had TV and press stickers plastered across its doors and roof, said the vehicle burst into flames after a missile slammed into it.
When a group of photographers rushed to try to rescue their colleague a second missile struck the area, he said.
Two more people were killed in the air strike, medics said. Their identities were not immediately known.
An Israeli military spokesman expressed regret after the incident.
"We regret the death of a photographer, but it must be pointed out that there's a war going on against armed terrorists who are extremists and dangerous," he told AFP.
"Members of the media or civilians put themselves in danger" by entering a combat zone," the spokesman said.
Shana was driving near the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, where at least nine Palestinians were killed in an earlier air strike, all of them civilians, according to Hassanein.
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Things make so little sense.
Israel will have to negotiate with Hamas, because Abbas is too weak to negotiate anything alone.
In a few decades Israel holding on to Gaza and the West Bank, will make a joke out of a Jewish state, as the Arab birthrate goes up.
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