GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian man was shot dead and another injured on Thursday by Israeli forces east of Gaza city.
Spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said that Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26, from an area east of al-Shujaiyeh died from injuries sustained after Israeli forces shot him in the head in nearby al-Montar east of Gaza City.
Al-Qidra added that another man, 21, was moderately injured after being shot in the foot.
Medics told Ma'an earlier that two people were taken to a hospital after the shooting at the border.
A Ma'an reporter said that the two men were collecting pebbles near the border when they were shot.
An Israeli army spokesman, however, told Ma'an that "several Palestinians approached the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and began tampering with (the) fence."
"The soldiers operated in order to distance the suspects and after exhausting all possible means to do so fired at the main instigator," he added. more
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