Israeli troops kill Gaza fishermen
Three killed as they worked on the shore, but Israeli army says they were trying to plant bomb near security fence. Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza-Israeli border, Palestinian medics have said. Gaza's ministry of health said on Thursday that the men were killed overnight in the north of Gaza, near Beit Lahiya, while they were working with their nets on the shore. The medics said that the victims were shot by Israeli forces before dawn. Abu Selmiya identified the men as Jihad Khalaf, 20, Talaat al-Awagh, 25 and Ashraf al-Kteifan, 29. But the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in a statement said the men were "militants".
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