Palestinian dead
Israeli troops on Sunday shot dead three Palestinians, including a 91-year-old man and his grandson, in the town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said. "Ibrahim Abdullah Abu Saeed, a farm manager who was 91 years, and Ismael Abu Walid Audeh (20), was killed Sunday by Israeli tank fire," said Salima Abu Adham, a spokesman for the local medical services, told AFP.
Shortly afterwards, the old man's grandson, Hossam Khaled Abu Saeed, also died from injuries he sustained in the incident, which occurred near the Gaza-Israel border. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the shooting.
Forces "opened fire on a group of terrorists preparing to fire the RPG (rocket propelled grenades)" to Israel, he told AFP, but he could not say how many suspects who attacked and did not give further detailed explanation.
According to the spokesman, the incident is the second in the border on Sunday. In the first incident, Israeli troops fired warning at a group of people who approached the border fence.
At least seven rockets or mortars hit Israel in this week, and on Friday, Israel launched a series of retaliatory air strikes, mainly aimed at smugglers tunnel, which injured two members of Hamas security forces.
Israeli all-out pounding the Gaza Strip almost two years ago with a pretext to stop firing rockets into the area almost every day the Jewish state.
War in and around Gaza erupted again after a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, 2008.
Israeli forces have also repeatedly bombed the Gaza border with Egypt since they started the offensive on December 27, 2008 in an effort to destroy the smuggling tunnels connecting the region with Egypt that the Palestinian poor.
Israeli Air Force bombed more than 40 tunnels connecting the Gaza area was blockaded by Egypt's Sinai desert when the offensive began. The tunnels that cross the border was used to smuggle goods and weapons into the Gaza Strip who are disconnected from the outside world since Israeli blockade since Hamas master it in 2007.
Operation "Cast Lead" Israel, which killed more than 1,400 people including hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroying a large number of areas in the coastal track, claims aimed at ending rocket attacks from Gaza. Three-dozen Israelis were killed during the war.
Middle East peace process stalled since the conflict, and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip remains blockaded by Israel.
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal regions, blockaded by Israel and Egypt after Hamas took power nearly three years ago.
Group Hamas controls the Gaza Strip in June of 2007 after defeating Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a deadly battle for a few days.
Since then the impoverished coastal territory by Israeli dibloklade. Palestine into two areas were separate entity - the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and West Bank under the Abbas government.
EU, Israel and the U.S. enter into the Hamas terrorist organization list.
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