Israel lets Palestinians flee; U.N. warns of deeper crisis

Saturday, January 3, 2009

EREZ CROSSING, Israel -- Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives.

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