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...border. Israel has conducted air strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, but the initial focus of the ground effort was on the south, where it is believed Shalit is being held. Further incursions soon followed in northern Gaza, provoking intense fighting in the neighborhoods of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, just inside the border with Israel. Israeli officials say their purpose in the north is to prevent militants from firing Qassam rockets into Israel by creating a "buffer zone" inside Gaza - a goal that took on added urgency when a longer-range version of the rocket reached the Israeli city...
...recent days, Israeli soldiers had taken positions inside Palestinian homes in Beit Hanoun, and last night more than a dozen Israeli tanks pushed into three former Israeli settlements and also into Beit Lahiya. Scattered exchanges of fire Wednesday night had turned, by early Thursday, into a series of running battles, with Palestinian fighters firing automatic weapons and RPGs, and the Israelis firing from tanks and other armored vehicles positioned between homes on village streets, and later calling in support from helicopter gunships. Israeli officials say their soldier was killed by a Palestinian sniper, while the Palestinian fatalities came from missile...
...Gaza Strip is 25 miles south of Tel Aviv, a matter of minutes by helicopter. The military post at the corner of the fence, which was built in 1994 to prevent terrorists crossing into Israel, gazes out over a sea of concrete. This is the village of Beit Hanoun, which merges with the massive refugee camp of Jabalya and, in turn, Gaza City itself. There is no break in the drab urban sprawl until our Twin Star chopper passes the dunes around the Israeli settlement of Netzarim...
...Palestinian militants will try to attack the settlements during the relative chaos of the withdrawal. If that happens, these tanks will roll in to keep Palestinian gunmen occupied until the withdrawal is complete. Only one dune separates the field of tanks from the fence and the village of Beit Hanoun. It might not take much - a few homemade Qassam rockets - to set the tanks rolling...
...RELEASED. FLORENCE AUBENAS, 44, French foreign correspondent for the Paris daily Lib?ration; after being held captive in Iraq for more than five months; in Baghdad. Aubenas, who was kidnapped with her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi by Sunni insurgents, received euphoric media coverage and public attention upon her return to France. The French government had negotiated for her release for months, and said no ransom was paid. "My kidnappers told me that I was as famous as Lady Di in France," said Aubenas after arriving in Paris...