The CNN Wire: Wednesday, Oct. 17
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Israeli soldier, Palestinian gunman killed in Gaza firefight 
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday exchanged fire with armed Palestinians in a southern Gaza village, a battle that left an Israeli soldier and an armed Palestinian dead, according to an Israeli army spokeswoman. 
The clash began in the pre-dawn hours and was still ongoing, Palestinian witnesses said. Israeli soldiers are carrying out arrests, they said. The army spokeswoman said the firefight began after Palestinian militants fired an anti-tank missile toward the Israeli soldiers, who had entered the village on an anti-terror mission. 
Palestinian eyewitnesses said the forces entered Farahin, east of Khan Younis, around 4 a.m. They said Hazem Asfour, 25, a member of Hamas, was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell. Israel Defense Forces confirmed in a statement that an Israeli soldier was killed in the firefight in southern Gaza, but offered no other details. (Posted 8:04 a.m.)