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Two days after ceasefire Israel kills Palestinian man in Khan Younis

Ma’an News:

 Israeli forces killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man near the Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday morning, medical officials said.

Medics said Anwar Abdul Hadi Qudaih, 20, was hit in the head with a live bullet east of Khan Younis.

Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said 19 others were wounded by Israeli fire in the border area.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of violating the Egypt-mediated truce and said the group would complain to Cairo. “We will contact the Egyptian mediator to discuss the incident,” he said.

Witnesses told Ma’an a group of citizens were gathering to perform Friday prayer on their land near the border.

A relative of the dead man, who was at the scene, told Reuters that Qudaih had been trying to place a Hamas flag on the fence. He added that an Israeli soldier had fired into the air three times before Qdeih was hit in the head by a bullet.

This New York Times article is using Ma’an News as a source. However it doesn’t appear they’ve read Ma’an’s article.

Maan, the Palestinian news agency, reported that a group of Palestinians went to Abassan, a border area east of the southern town of Khan Younis, on Friday to pray on their land, and ended up throwing stones at soldiers, who responded with gunfire. Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, identified the man who was killed as Ahmad Qudaih.

It remained unclear whether Hamas would depict the episode as a violation of the still uncertain cease-fire.

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An Israeli government official said on Friday that, as part of the latest cease-fire understandings, Israel agreed to discuss the buffer zone with the Egyptian sponsors of the truce. But, the official added, no negotiations have taken place yet. For now, the official said, Israel’s regulations for maintaining the zone and the army’s rules of engagement remain unchanged.

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We all knew Israel would violate this ceasefire, though perhaps we didn’t expect it to happen so blatantly, or so soon. One thing is for sure, Israel NEVER sticks to agreements. Never.

MURDER as cover for THEFT is *not* SELF-DEFENSE

Israel’s argument against the 67 borders is that they insist there is not enough of a buffer zone to protect them from attacks. Israel will continue their encroachment by requiring that thier buffer zones have buffer zones to ensure adequate security. They already require that Palestinians exist in a controlled and continuosly weakened state, and that any improvement in their conditions directly threatens Israel’s security. The Palestinian issue appears to them as nothing more than “pest control” as they complain that they are perceived as if they are instead clubbing baby seals. From the Israeli perspective, the world needs to see that Israeli raids are against “vermin” rather than human beings that one might have some empathy for.

This is not a ceasefire violation, it’s Israel’s idea of whata ceasefire and truce looks like.

an Israeli soldier had fired into the air three times before Qdeih was hit in the head by a bullet

The most moral army in the world warns three times before firing a bullet into the head of an unarmed civilian.
Perhaps this was simply target practice for the Israeli soldiers.
http://vimeo.com/18384109

From the video on this page it sure looks like Israeli soldiers INSIDE the buffer zone.