Gaza boy killed by Israeli tank fire
GAZA CITY (AFP) — A Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli tank fire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said.
One person was also wounded in the same incident between the border with Israel and the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the sources said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said a ground force carried out an incursion aimed at "distancing terrorists from the (border) fence" following several Palestinian shooting attacks from the area.
Since Israel and the Palestinians formally relaunched peace talks in November at least 368 people have been killed, most of them Gaza militants, according to an AFP count.
At least 6,331 people have been killed overall, the vast majority of them Palestinians, since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in 2000.
