Israeli aircraft on Friday attacked a car in Gaza City carrying militants, Palestinian officials and the Israeli army confirmed — the latest strike of a five-day-old Israeli offensive designed to force militants to free an abducted Israeli soldier. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Meanwhile, backdoor negotiations continued in an effort to release a kidnapped soldier. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said terrorists agreed to a conditional release of the kidnapped soldier but that Israel had yet to accept their terms, which he did not specify. Israel said it was not familiar with any such offer. In remarks published Friday, Mubarak told the pro-government Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that "Egyptian contacts with several Hamas leaders resulted in preliminary, positive results in the shape of a conditional agreement to hand over the Israeli soldier as soon as possible to avoid an escalation. But agreement on this has not yet been reached with the Israeli side."...
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