[Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP]An Israeli army raid killed 11 Palestinians including a teenager Wednesday in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, in the deadliest escalation in the occupied West Bank since 2005. More than 80 Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds, the Palestinian ministry said, in what the Israeli army called a "counter-terrorism" operation, spurring international concern and calls for calm. The Israeli army said the raid targeted militant suspects "in a hideout apartment" accused of shootings in the West Bank. Before dawn on Thursday, several rockets from Gaza -- six according to the Israeli army, and eight according to witnesses on the Palestinian side -- were fired into Israel. The Israeli army said it managed to intercept five of the six fired, while the final rocket fell in an uninhabited area.
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