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Unit 16 Israeli –Palestinian Conflicts Section A bulldozers truce shelling abduction clashes militia detained burst militant halt gunmen motorists mortar fire activists Section B Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah Party has successfully defended a political challenge from the militant group Hamas with a victory in West Bank municipal elections. International donors have pledged 500 million dollars in aid for Palestinian territories . The pledges came at the end of a one-day conference of donor nations in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. For the second evening in succession the Israeli Air Force has lauched a missile attack on a car carrying Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip , killing a member of the armed group , the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,and wounding another. An eight-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed by Israeli artillery fire in the northern Gaza Strip . Twelve people, including five of the girl’s brothers and sisters and her pregnant mother, were injured when an Israeli shell crashed through the roof of the family’s home in the town of Beit Lahiya. Fighting has broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip as Israel expands an operation in the Palestinian territory seeking to stop rocket attacks on its towns and cities. Key C D B B A Section C Item 1 In his first major act since returning to work after a stroke , the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has instructed his country’s security forcesto implement immediately a plan establishing a buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said Palestinians will be excluded from the area to stop militants from firing rockets into troops in Gaza to remain in position. Israel says more than 200 rockets have been fired from northern Gaza since its forces withdrew in Septimber. Key 1. D G 2. F I 3. A C 4. B Item 2 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice