{"id":3972,"date":"2015-01-03T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T06:50:53","slug":"palestinian-shot-dead-in-gaza-by-egypt-border-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2015\/01\/03\/3972\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian shot dead in Gaza by Egypt border troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/israel-rocket.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Egyptian soldiers firing from across the border shot dead a Palestinian man in the Gaza frontier town of Rafah on Friday, medics said, although the motive was not immediately known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The border troops shot the 23-year-old man \u201cin the back and the bullet settled in the heart. He died on the spot,\u201d emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The shooting was confirmed by the spokesman of the interior ministry in Gaza, Iyad al-Bazm, in a message on his Facebook page.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cA Palestinian citizen, aged 23, was killed by Egyptian army fire on the Egyptian-Palestinian border and the security agencies are investigating the incident to find out the motives,\u201d it said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The man, whose identity was not revealed, is the first Palestinian \u201cto have been killed in a long time\u201d along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, according to Qudra.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Tuesday, Egypt announced that work to double the width of a buffer zone along the Gaza border would begin next week to prevent militants infiltrating from the Palestinian enclave.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Construction of the 500-metre (546-yard) buffer zone along 10 kilometers of the border follows an October 24 suicide bombing that killed 30 Egyptian soldiers. Some 800 homes are being demolished in the process.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After that incident, Egypt declared a three-month emergency in parts of North Sinai, a remote but strategic region bordering Israel and Gaza, and closed the Rafah border crossing for two months.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Egypt reopened the crossing for two days in November and again in December, for three days, to allow people stranded in Egypt to return to the Palestinian enclave and for Gazans to leave.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Rafah crossing is Gaza\u2019s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Egypt suspects Palestinian militants of aiding jihadist attacks against its security forces that have increased since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Egyptian army has also stepped up the destruction of tunnels from Gaza it says are used to smuggle arms, food and money by Palestinian militant group Hamas which controls the territory.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cairo says it has destroyed more than 1,600 tunnels since Mursi\u2019s ouster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <strong><em>Alarabiya<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian soldiers firing from across the border shot dead a Palestinian man in the Gaza frontier town of Rafah on Friday, medics said, although the motive was not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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