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JERUSALEM (AP) - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a young Israeli woman Thursday, hours after Israeli forces raided the West Bank home of a British woman and killed a militant, further shaking a five-month truce threatened earlier this week by a suicide bombing. Two rockets exploded Thursday in the village of Nativ Haasara, just north of Gaza. One hit a house and killed a woman in her 20s, the military said. The second destroyed a parked car. A Palestinian militant group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, said the rocket attack was retaliation for the killing of the...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israeli soldiers raided a Palestinian engagement party Wednesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah and arrested the prospective bridegroom, participants said. Rami Barghouti, 28, an activist in the Islamic militant group Hamas who has long been in hiding, was celebrating his engagement when Israeli forces surrounded the house. Participants said Barghouti tried to hide, but the soldiers opened fire and captured him. He was wounded, they said. His fiancee was not detained. Barghouti is a distant relative of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian uprising leader serving five life terms after being convicted in May in...