Israeli soldiers have killed four Palestinians including a 10-year-old boy who died while he was hunting birds in the Gaza Strip.
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An aunt of the ten-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Kayed weeps afterher nephew was killed in Gaza today
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The boy, Mahamoud al-Qayed, was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip near the Israeli agricultural community of Nahal Oz, a witness and medics said.
Elsewhere, a Palestinian man was shot dead near Maghazi refugee camp, when troops opened fire after a large bomb was detonated near an army patrol.
The bodies of two other Palestinians were recovered this morning near the town of Khan Yunis after soldiers shot at Palestinians they claimed were suspected of attempting to plant explosives nearIsrael's border fence.
One of those killed was a local leader of the Al-AqsaMartyrs Brigade, a militant group linked to Mr Yasser Arafat's Fatahmovement, a Brigade spokesman said. He vowed revenge attacks in Israeli cities.