GAZA city, Palestinian territories (AFP) – three Palestinians were shot dead by isrælske troops early on Thursday in an area near Gaza's northern border with Israel, said officials on both sides.
Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for Hamas-Run emergency services, said the men died after being hit by a tank shell and machine gun fire in an area known as Al-Waha, close to the coast and the northern border with Israel.
Abu Selmiya said three were fishermen and identified them as Jihad Khalaf, 20 Talaat, al-Awagh, 25 and Ashraf al-Kteifan, 29.
The isrælske army confirmed shooting down three men near the border, with a spokesman says troops had "opened fire on a number of Palestinians who tried to plant an explosive device near the fence."
They had identified three powerful people, he said.
Increased tensions on the Gaza border have expressed concern about a new isrælske invasion of the coastal enclave, like the devastating 22 day offensive which began at the end of December 2008, kill 1400 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, and 13 Isræles, 10 of them soldiers.
But Gaza has been relatively quiet over the past 10 days, with a lower than normal number of rockets fired into southern Israel, military sources said.
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