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| Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian man during a raid into the southern Gaza Strip. | |
| Medical sources said the man was a local resident who was shot in the head and chest at the entrance to his house. | Medical sources said the man was a local resident who was shot in the head and chest at the entrance to his house. |
| He bled to death because the military prevented an ambulance from entering the area, the medical sources said. | He bled to death because the military prevented an ambulance from entering the area, the medical sources said. |
| The Israeli military said a man had been shot who approached troops and posed a threat. It said it did not know whether the man was armed. | The Israeli military said a man had been shot who approached troops and posed a threat. It said it did not know whether the man was armed. |
| The shooting happened near the Sufa crossing between Gaza and Israel, about 400 metres (1,300 feet) from the border. | The shooting happened near the Sufa crossing between Gaza and Israel, about 400 metres (1,300 feet) from the border. |
| Earlier, the Israeli army said Palestinian militants had fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel without causing casualties or damage. | Earlier, the Israeli army said Palestinian militants had fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel without causing casualties or damage. |
| More than 210 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in military operations since Israel intensified its raids in Gaza and the West Bank following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from Gaza on 25 June. | More than 210 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in military operations since Israel intensified its raids in Gaza and the West Bank following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from Gaza on 25 June. |
| The violence came as military prosecutors appealed against a court ruling calling for the release of 18 members of the militant Palestinian movement Hamas. | |
| A military judge had ordered their release on Tuesday. | |
| The Hamas members, some of them senior ministers in the Palestinian cabinet, were detained in a clampdown on Hamas following the capture of Gilad Shalit on 25 June, which was jointly claimed by the Hamas armed wing. |