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• March 12: Palestinians gather around a car where four Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israeli troops opened fire on a car Wednesday, killing four Palestinian militants, Palestinian medical officials said, throwing doubt on prospects for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
• March 12: Palestinians gather around a car with bullet holes in the front windshield after four Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• March 12: Relatives of Palestinian militants killed by Israeli troops react at a hospital in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• March 12: Relatives of Palestinian militants killed by Israeli troops react at the hospital in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• March 12: Palestinians carry the body of one of four Palestinian militants killed by Israeli troops to a hospital in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• March 12: Palestinians carry the body of one of four Palestinian militants killed by Israeli troops to the hospital in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• March 12: Palestinians gather next to the partially destroyed family house of Islamic Jihad militant Saleh Karkur in the West Bank village of Saida. Israeli troops on an arrest raid in Saida killed Karkur, 27, in a pre-dawn gunbattle, according to Palestinians and the Israeli military.
• March 12: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits a military post near Kfar Aza, overlooking the Gaza Strip. Hamas' prime minister on Wednesday called for a period of calm with Israel, laying out conditions that would imply limited international acceptance of Islamic militant rule in Gaza but also allow U.S.-brokered Mideast peace talks to move forward.
• March 12: Palestinian mourners surround the body of Saleh Karkur, 27, an Islamic Jihad leader in the northern West Bank, during his funeral in the village of Atteil.
• March 12: Palestinians gather next to the partially destroyed family house of Islamic Jihad militant Saleh Karkur, in the West Bank village of Saida.
• March 12: Palestinian mourners carry the body of Saleh Karkur, 27, an Islamic Jihad leader in the northern West Bank, during his funeral in the village of Atteil.
• March 12: Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, center, walks out of the Islamic University in Gaza City. Haniyeh on Wednesday publicly called for a truce with Israel, laying out his conditions for a break in fighting that has killed dozens of people in recent weeks.
• March 12: The mother of Palestinian Rajed Abu Radwan, 4, kisses her hand at Wolfson Hospital in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up at an Israeli hospital on Wednesday to operate on three Palestinian girls under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Jewish state.
• March 12: Palestinian Iman Abur-Aram, 8, sleeps at Wolfson Hospital in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel, following a heart operation. Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up at an Israeli hospital on Wednesday to operate on three Palestinian girls, under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Jewish state.
• March 12: Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank village of Saida. Israeli troops on an arrest raid in Saida killed an Islamic Jihad militant in a pre-dawn gunbattle, according to Palestinians and the Israeli military.