- Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian youth
in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
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- Palestinian medical sources said Ahmed Hams died as he
tended a friend who had been shot and injured.
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- An Israeli military spokesman said troops had opened
fire because the two were in a restricted area.
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- Meanwhile, Palestinian militants fired five homemade
rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, injuring a 10-year-old
boy and damaging property.
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- The rockets landed in Sderot, a town near the border
with Gaza.
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- The boy was hit in the leg by a rocket fragment, rescue
workers said. Other residents were treated for shock.
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- Dozens of Qassam rockets have been fired at Israeli targets
in the last two years, but most of them land without causing any harm.
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- In June, a rocket killed two Sderot residents, the first
such fatalities.
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- Israeli troops have been carrying out an incursion into
Rafah, the scene of bloody clashes in May.
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- The troops who shot dead Ahmed Hams - who was said to
be in his late teens - believed their targets were trying to plant a bomb
near a military post, the army said. Palestinian witnesses said the shooting
was unprovoked.
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- Dozens held
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- In the West Bank, Israeli troops rounded up dozens of
Palestinians at a refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus.
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- The troops moved into the Ein Beit Ilma camp at about
0600, ordering men under the age of 35 out of their homes, residents quoted
by AP said.
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- About 150 people were taken to a school where they were
held for several hours.
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- Film footage showed the men lifting their shirts - to
show soldiers they were not wearing explosives belts - as they entered
the school.
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- Military officials said soldiers detained men male residents
of the camp under 45, for questioning about involvement in violence.
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- The officials said some were released in the afternoon
and others were taken for interrogation.
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- Israeli army has been carrying out a security operation
in Nablus, a stronghold of Palestinian militants, for five days.
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