Israeli soldiers kill gunman in Gaza: medics

GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian
gunmen along the Gaza-Israel border early on Monday,
Palestinian medics and security sources said.

Troops killed the militant from the Popular Resistance
Committees as he planted explosives near a security fence
separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, an army spokesman said.

The killing was the latest incident in near daily
tit-for-tat violence between the Israeli army and militants
since Israel withdrew from the coastal strip last September.

After the shooting, the army fired artillery rounds at
empty fields in northern Gaza. Militants had launched rockets
into the Jewish state overnight, a military spokesman said.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops arrested two
Palestinians carrying a bomb in a bag.

The army said the arrests thwarted a bomb attack planned
for Monday. Israel Army radio said one of the two arrested men
was a suicide bomber and the other was his accomplice.

Palestinian suicide bombers have killed hundreds of people
in attacks since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000. In the
most recent incident, a suicide bomber killed 10 people at a
fast food outlet in Tel Aviv on April 17.