Palestinian shot dead near Gaza settlement

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man yesterday and wounded three others as a crowd tried to force its way into a demolished Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, medics said. The 24-year-old from the southern town of Khan Younis was the first...

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man yesterday and wounded three others as a crowd tried to force its way into a demolished Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, medics said.

The 24-year-old from the southern town of Khan Younis was the first Palestinian killed in a confrontation with Israeli troops in Gaza since Israel evacuated all 21 settlements there last month.

Several hours after the confrontation Palestinian militants fired two rockets at the southern Israeli collective farm of Yad Mordechai, Israeli media reports said.

There were no reported casualties or damage, nor any immediate claims of responsibility for the rockets. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police tried to disperse more than 100 Palestinians who had gathered outside Neve Dekalim, one of the evacuated settlements in Gaza, shaking the wire fence and cutting it.

Israeli troops shot at several who planted a green banner of the Hamas militant group and the Palestinian national flag, witnesses said.

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