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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Israeli fire kills Palestinian near Gaza border
Israeli soldiers opened fire on demonstrators throwing stones near the border fence in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian
protesters watch fellow demonstrators clashing with Israeli security
forces over the blockade on the Gaza Strip on June 5, 2017. (AFP)
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians who were throwing stones
near the border fence in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing one man and
wounding seven others, residents and hospital officials said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said dozens of Palestinians had gathered
at the fence and were trying to damage it. Soldiers on the Israeli side
of the border fired warning shots in the air after their calls to halt
were ignored.
Residents in the enclave, run by Islamist Hamas group, said the
protesters were throwing stones near the fence when the Israeli troops
shot at them. Hospital officials in Gaza said a 25-year-old man was
killed.
The Israeli spokeswoman said the military was looking into reports of a Palestinian fatality.
At least 248 Palestinians and one Jordanian citizen have been killed
since a wave of sporadic violence began in 2015 in Israel and the
Palestinian Territories.
Israel says at least 167 of those killed were carrying out stabbings,
shootings or car-ramming attacks. Others died during clashes and
protests.
Thirty-seven Israelis, two American tourists and a British student have
been killed in the violence, which has slowed in recent months but not
stopped.
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians hope to to establish
an independent state including the enclave and the occupied West Bank
and East Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East
war.
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian leadership have stalled.
An Israeli panel approved plans on Tuesday for the first new Jewish
settlement in the West Bank in two decades, Israeli media reports said,
drawing Palestinian condemnation and defying repeated international
appeals to avoid such measures.