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Palestinian mourners on March 16 in Khan Yunis carrying the body of an Islamic Jihad militant killed in an IAF strike. (AP)
Last update - 00:00 24/03/2008
Palestinians: Civilian dead, another hurt as IDF troops enter Gaza
By Reuters
Tags: Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel

Israel Defense Forces troops killed an unarmed Palestinian and wounded another during a clash with gunmen on the border of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Monday, hospital officials and militant sources said.

They said gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) faction fired at an IDF bulldozer performing maintenance work on the boundary fence near the southern town of Khan Yunis.

Soldiers shot back, hitting two civilians, one fatally, hospital officials said. The gunmen fled the scene.
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The PRC said the Israeli bulldozer and a small infantry unit were on the Gazan side of the border at the time. Palestinians said the dead man was a 65-year-old farmer who was on his land at the time.

An IDF spokesman had no immediate comment on the incident, which came during a relative lull in Gaza violence as Egypt tries to broker a ceasefire between Islamist Hamas and the Jewish state.

Palestinian hospital officials said it was not clear if the casualties were linked to militant groups.

Israel has denied being in truce talks but offered to stop its attacks on Gaza if cross-border rocket salvoes and other militant activities in the territory ceased.

Hamas suspended its rocket fire after Israeli forces raided northern Gaza this month, killing more than 120 Palestinians, many of them civilians. There have, however, been sporadic launches by a smaller militant group, Islamic Jihad.

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