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Girl, 7, killed by Israelis

JERUSALEM: A seven-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli forces in
Khan Younis yesterday shortly after a nearby Hamas mortar attack.

"We were having lunch when suddenly there were some explosions and automatic
gunfire," the victim's father Omar Siam, 50, said.

"I felt a pain in my leg, but I was only lightly injured, thank God... Our
meal was splashed in blood. We then realised that Rania had been killed by a
bullet to the head."

Earlier in the day, a makeshift rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the
Gaza Strip landed harmlessly in southern Israel, military sources said.

The attack was launched from the northern Gaza Strip where three Palestinians
were wounded late on Thursday in an Israeli air strike on the home of a wanted
militant.

Israeli police detained a Palestinian presidential candidate after a scuffle
with him at a West Bank checkpoint, the second such incident to mar the
campaign to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat.

Witnesses said paramilitary border police stopped Bassam Al Salhi, handcuffed
him and took him away as he tried to cross A-Ram checkpoint into Jerusalem.
Police scuffled with Salhi's aides when they tried to pull him free.

Members of an international solidarity group trying accompanying humanitarian
assistance to the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, abandoned their trip after a standoff
with Egyptian security forces, a member of the group said.

Standoff

"We are returning. Negotiations with the police to go to Rafah have failed,"
Alima Bouomediene, a French senator from the Green Party, said. "I am
disappointed that Arab states are not in harmony with the Arab street.
Israelis can sleep soundly," she said.

Egyptian police and border guards had stopped the group of some 300 activists,
including 60 Europeans, 150km from Al Arish in northern Sinai and prevented
them from proceeding to the border town of Rafah.

lIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon invited the opposition Labour Party to
form a national unity government, seeking to avoid early elections and ensure
a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year.

Sharon made the offer in a call to Labour leader Shimon Peres, his old
ideological rival and Israel's leading dove, after the rightist Likud's
Central Committee voted on Thursday night to overturn its earlier ban on
negotiating an alliance.

It was a major blow for hardline Likud rebels, who oppose giving up Gaza or
any land captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and tried to prevent a
partnership with pro-withdrawal Labour as a way to stop it.

Labour's entry into Sharon's shaky coalition could help restart long-stalled
peace talks after Palestinians elections on January 9.


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