Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian gunman in Gaza
April 24, 2006
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian
gunman in an exchange of fire along the Gaza-Israel border
early on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said.
“A Palestinian gunman opened fire along the Gaza border.
Soldiers arrived at the scene and exchanged fire with him. We
identified a hit,” an army spokeswoman said.
The gunman was the third militant to be killed by Israeli
forces in two days.
On Sunday, an army unit killed two members of the militant
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades during a raid in the West Bank city of
Bethlehem. A third was arrested.
Palestinian sources initially said the two killed in
Bethlehem were members of the security forces but they later
confirmed the army’s account that they were militants.
Source: reuters