Gaza City  - Hamas admitted Friday that its own militants were behind a huge explosion in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya that had killed eight Palestinians, including a four-month-old baby.

Gaza City  - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip Thursday morning, Palestinian medical officials and an Israeli military spokeswoman said.

Gaza - An 8-year-old Palestinian girl was killed early Wednesday in an Israeli shelling in southern Gaza Strip, hospital sources and witnesses said.

Three other people from the same family of the girl, Hadeel al-Summiri, were also injured when a tank shell landed on their house in al-Qarara village in the east of Khan Younis city.

According to residents, Israeli tanks rolled into the area, fired a shell that landed on the house and caused great damage, killing the girl.

Israeli soldiers refused to allow ambulances to enter the area, which lies by the security fence which separates between Israel and Gaza, the residents said.

Hospital officials said the body of the girl was cut into pieces.

Gaza - A Pale

Gaza City  - Israeli military snipers shot and killed a Palestinian during an army incursion east of Gaza City early Friday, according to the official Voice of Palestine radio.

Gaza  - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday he wants to have talks with the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas under the supervision of the Arab League.