Israeli Tanks Enter Palestinian Territory, Kill Two Policemen
In Monday's incursion, three Israeli tanks drove about 900 yards into Palestinian territory near the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, police said. Witnesses said troops fired randomly from tank-mounted machine guns. The Israeli military had no comment on the raid.

On Sunday evening, two armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli tank fire about half a mile south of the Jewish settlement of Dugit in northern Gaza, said an army spokesman, Capt. Jacob Dallal.

However, Palestinian police said the officers, members of the naval police, were killed about three miles south of Dugit.

The Palestinian police commander in Gaza, Brig. Gen. Abdel Razek Majaida, said members of the naval police who witnessed the incident told him the two men were lying wounded on the ground when they were killed by Israeli troops.

Dallal denied the charges. ``The armed terrorists were approaching the settlement and they were shot and killed,'' he said.

Palestinian doctors said tanks drove over the bodies. The body of one of the policemen was mangled, his head flattened.

As part of the incident, two Israeli tanks and an armored personnel carrier drove about a half-mile into the coastal neighborhood of Sudaniyeh in the town of Beit Lahia, Palestinian officials said. The armored vehicles fired machine guns and shells.

Two shells punched holes into the private American International School, which has American teachers and is attended by Palestinian children. School officials had no immediate comment. A large American flag flew atop the building.
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