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Jordan Times (News Section) NABLUS (Agencies) � Israeli forces shot their way into two Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank on Thursday, killing 11 people in an upsurge of violence that cast a deep shadow over a new Middle East peace initiative.
A twelfth Palestinian was shot dead in a village outside Bethlehem in a separate clash, Palestinian doctors said.
The Israeli army said one of its soldiers was also killed in heavy fighting at one of the camps, Balata, just outside the Palestinian-ruled city of Nablus, during operations it said it mounted to flush out �terrorists.�
The raids marked the fiercest assault carried out against Palestinian refugee camps � the main strongholds of resistance groups � since an uprising against Israeli occupation erupted in September 2000.