Mideast Conflict

Palestinians search for the bodies of three killed earlier near the border fence with Israel, on the eve of the first anniversary of a three-week Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, December 26, 2009. Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians near a border fence in northern Gaza they suspected of trying to infiltrate from the Hamas-ruled territory but a Hamas security source said the three were shot as they collected scrap metal. A total of six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Saturday in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the bloodiest violent outbreak in months.