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Israelis kill Palestinian in Gaza

Mon Oct 09 14:10:12 UTC 2006

Two Palestinians killed by Israel

Mon Oct 09 18:30:22 UTC 2006
The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian in farmland in the northern Gaza Strip, an area used by militants for firing rockets at Israel.The Israeli army has killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian officials named the person killed as Mahmoud Abu Nasser. It was not initially clear if he was a militant or civilian. Palestinian medics said a 14-year-old boy was killed in northern Gaza. Israel said it killed a Palestinian retrieving a rocket launcher.
Five others were wounded in the strike, the Palestinian officials said.In the second incident, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian they said was trying to stab them at a checkpoint close to the West Bank city of Nablus.
The army said it had attacked a "man who came to collect a launcher" after a rocket had fired been at Israel.But Palestinian witnesses said the 20-year-old victim was unarmed.
A hospital medic quoted by Reuters news agency put Abu Nasser's age at 14. Israel launched an offensive against militants in Gaza after Palestinian gunmen seized a soldier in a cross-border raid from the strip on June 25.
Israel launched an offensive in Gaza after Palestinian militants seized a soldier in a cross-border raid on 25 June.Around 225 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed in the offensive in the impoverished strip.
About 225 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed in sustained Israeli raids.Israel has also been carrying out military strikes to try to stop gunmen firing homemade rockets at Israeli towns and villages near the border with Gaza.