Heavy fighting has broken out between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jenin, with reports of heavy casualties on both sides. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ofer Gendleman, told the BBC that 10 Israeli soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours. The reports came as Israeli forces completed their withdrawal from the towns of Qalqilya and Tulkarm, although Israeli tanks remain in a cordon around the towns. The decision to withdraw followed repeated calls from the US to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pull soldiers out of Palestinian areas.

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