GAZA CITY: Israeli troops killed 10 Palestinians, including a toddler and a 13-year-old boy, in raids on the Gaza Strip launched as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was set to clash with lawmakers over changes he made to a key bill to appoint a power-sharing prime minister.
The deadly new raids came after an army bulldozer crushed to death a US peace activist trying to prevent almost daily house demolitions in Rafah, a town on the Israeli-controlled southern border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.