MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

An Israeli fighter plane releases a flare as it flies over Gaza City, Saturday, March 1, 2008. Thirty-five Gazans, at least half of them civilians, died in pitched battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian rocket squads that escalated sharply on Saturday. West Bank leaders threatened to suspend peace talks to protest the Israeli attacks, which came as Gaza militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortars.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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