Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza fence after rocket attacks
- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement identified the dead man as Mohammed Al-Naem, 27
Israeli forces on Sunday shot dead a Palestinian suspected of placing a bomb near the Gaza border, before extracting his body with a bulldozer, the army said.
“Following the successful thwarting of the attack near the Gaza Strip fence earlier this morning, an IDF (Israeli army) bulldozer extracted the body of one of the attackers,” a military spokeswoman told AFP.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement identified the dead man as Mohammed Al-Naem, 27, a member of its armed Al-Quds Brigade forces.
Soon after dark, cross-border fire broke out from the Gaza Strip, setting off warning sirens in the southern Israeli city of Ashqelon and several other locations, the Israeli army said.
“Twenty launches were identified from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory,” a military statement said.
It did not specify if they were rockets or shorter range mortar fire but said that about 10 attacks were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system.
