Mideast - AFP
Two Palestinians killed in southern Gaza
Date: Fri, Jul 02, 2004
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli fire in two separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), medics said.
Mohammed Ahmed Krayyem, 55, was killed near the Jewish settlement bloc of Gush Katif and 25-year-old Yussef al-Arja was shot in Rafah, both in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, the sources said.
Israeli military sources confirmed they opened fire and "hit" a Palestinian man who was walking toward an army post in the Gush Katif bloc.
Krayyem, from the nearby Palestinian town of Khan Yunis, was hit by several bullets when troops posted in Netzer Hazani, one of Gush Katif's settlements, opened fire in his direction, the Palestinian medical sources said.
Khan Yunis residents told AFP that Krayyem had been mentally disabled.
Arja was shot by fire from an Israeli tank, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said, but there was no immediate confirmation from the Israeli army.
There were no clashes in the area when the tank opened fire, the sources added.
Arja had been gathering metal scraps in Rafah's impoverished Brazil neighborhood to re-sell them, the sources said.
The latest deaths bring the overall toll since the September 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, to 4,142, including 3,147 Palestinians and 923 Israelis, according to an AFP count.
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