Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians, one a civilian woman the other a militant, in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the army and Palestinian medical sources said.

In the first incident soldiers opened fire on two Palestinian militants attempting to place explosives near the Gaza border fence on Sunday, killing one and wounding the other, the army said.

"A unit saw two armed men preparing to place an explosive charge near the security fence. They opened fire and hit one of them," an army spokeswoman said.

The army later retrieved two Kalashnikov assault rifles and an explosive charge from the scene of the incident in the southern Gaza Strip near the border town of Rafah, she added.

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