Israeli armored bulldozers and tanks moved into the southern Gaza village of al Qurara in Palestinian territory tonight, destroying a building, Palestinian security sources said.
Colonel Khaled Abu Oula, the Palestinian liaison head of the southern Gaza sector, said Israeli tanks and bulldozers had penetrated several dozen metres and demolished a farm building.
Oula said the building "was destroyed without reason, and goes to show that an occupying army can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants."
Two mortar bombs landed in the nearby Jewish settlement bloc of Gush Katif in the southern Gaza Strip late yesterday and early today, an Israeli army spokeswoman said. No injuries were reported.
Meanwhile a Palestinian who was shot in the head during clashes with Palestinian police earlier in the week died of his wounds today, hospital officials said.
The 21-year-old man was the third person killed in the confrontations in the Gaza Strip on Monday between pro-Osama bin Laden protesters and Palestinian police.
At the Gaza rally, students and other protesters burned and destroyed police stations, cars and public institutions, leading to the worst internal fighting in the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority accused masked men at the demonstration of opening fire at the police and killing the three people. But the protesters say the police fired on the crowd and shot dead the demonstrators.
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