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Woman, child killed in Gaza

AZA CITY (Gaza Strip) JULY 6. A Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter were shot dead on Saturday morning while riding in a taxi in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians, who claimed Israeli troops were responsible. But Israel's army said its soldiers did not fire anywhere in the area.

Randa Hindi, (44), and her daughter, Noor, were killed by machine gun fire from an Israeli tank, according to Dr. Ahmed Rabeh, spokesman for al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah.

A passenger in the taxi, Jamal Ismail, 29, said the car came under fire just after passing the Netzarim junction near a Jewish settlement that is heavily guarded by the army. Hindi screamed, and the driver sped away. The other passengers included two more of Hindi's children, but no one else was hurt.

``When I looked back, I saw a very horrible scene I can never forget. The woman and her baby were in a pool of blood,'' Mr.Ismail said.

But the army denied that there was any Israeli firing in the area.

The Palestinian Authority angrily denounced the shooting.

``Any soldier who is committing a crime is not at all questioned, even by his leader in this occupation army,'' said Palestinian Information Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo.

Also, in Gaza, a 44-year-old Palestinian man, Subhi Shurab, was killed by Israeli gunfire while walking from the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis to his home just outside town, Palestinian security officials said. The army spokesman's office said it was unaware of any shooting in the area. Meanwhile, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat tried to smooth over a rift with his security officers in the West Bank.

Mr. Arafat was due to meet with officers from the Preventive Security branch in the wake of the firing of its chief, Jibril Rajoub.

But the security officers were denied entry into Arafat's compound by Israeli forces that control the streets of Ramallah, Palestinian officials said.

Mr. Arafat has been under Israeli and American pressure to restructure his overlapping security forces and direct them to stop terror attacks against Israel. This past week, Mr. Arafat appointed the governor of Jenin, Zuheir al-Manasra, to replace Mr. Rajoub. &

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