Palestinian farmer killed by Israeli strike in Gaza

A Palestinian farmer has been killed by Israeli artillery fire shut to Khan Yunis in Gaza, the Palestinian neatly being ministry acknowledged.

In step with eyewitnesses, the sufferer, known by the ministry as 31-year-inclined Omar Samour, became once on his land shut to the border when the incident occurred on Friday, AFP recordsdata agency reported. 

There became once no rapid confirmation from the Israeli navy of the strike.

Twenty-seven Palestinians were also wounded by Israeli forces on Friday morning, at the side of seven east of of Khan Yunis in the south and Gaza City in the north.

The incident comes advantageous hours sooner than a primary demonstration commemorating Land Day, which marks the day – March 30, 1976 – when six Palestinian electorate of Israel were killed by Israeli forces right via protests over Israeli land confiscations.

Friday’s demonstration is also keep to kick off six weeks of protests main as a lot as the inauguration of the unusual US embassy in Jerusalem around Could even merely 14.

The six-week-long tell requires the intelligent of return of Palestinian refugees to their properties in what’s now considered as Israel.

One of the best tell on Friday is keep to care for space in the Gaza Strip, the keep tents were keep up some 700 metres from the border. 

The Israeli military has deployed bigger than 100 snipers, with permission to fireplace, on the Gaza border, Gadi Eizenkot, the Israeli military chief of group, educated an Israeli newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.