Israeli Troops Said to Kill Palestinian, Testing Cease-Fire [View all]
Source: NYTimes
By JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER
GAZA — Health officials said on Friday that a 20-year-old Palestinian was killed and nine others wounded in a clash with Israeli soldiers in the southeast Gaza Strip, testing the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel after wild celebrations here on Thursday.
Gaza City residents celebrated the cease-fire, which ended the eight days of conflict but did not resolve many underlying issues.
The leadership in Gaza has said that the agreement, announced on Wednesday in Cairo to end eight days of ferocious exchanges, includes an Israeli promise to halt “incursions” into a 1,000-foot-wide buffer zone along Gaza’s northern and eastern borders where Palestinians have not been allowed to go.
Maan, the Palestinian news agency, reported that a group of Palestinians went to Abassan, a border area east of the southern town of Khan Younis, on Friday to pray on their land, and ended up throwing stones at soldiers, who responded with gunfire. Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, identified the man who was killed as Ahmad Qudih.
It remained unclear whether Hamas would depict the incident as a violation of the still uncertain cease-fire.
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