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ISRAEL TROOPS KILL PALESTINIAN NEAR GAZA November 25, 2006
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) A Palestinian man was shot down by Israeli soldiers near the Karni border crossing between the Jewish state and the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medical officials said.
According to an Israeli army spokeswoman, soldiers fired at three people as they approached the border area and identified hitting one.
Israel began an offensive in the coastal strip in June soon after Palestinian militants from Gaza captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid.
It was not immediately clear whether the man was armed.
Nearly 400 Palestinians, about half of them militants, have been killed since the offensive began, say Palestinian hospital officials.