Israeli troops kill 6 Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli troops killed six Palestinians, including a 17-year-old girl, in the bloodiest day of fighting this year across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Saturday.
The dead also included three militants traveling together in a car in the northern West Bank, and a man in Gaza killed in an Israeli airstrike in response to a Palestinian rocket attack.
Israeli officials defended the operations as the latest steps in their ongoing war against Palestinian militants.
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