Israel kills Gazan despite truce

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces near the Gaza border yesterday, the first casualty since the two sides agreed a truce ending their week-long conflict, Palestinian medical sources said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman could not confirm the incident, saying only that "disturbances" had broken out on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border early yesterday, prompting Israeli soldiers to fire warning shots.
The Palestinian emergency services identified the dead man as Abdelhadi Qdeih Anwar, 21. They said he was killed in the southern Gaza Strip village of Khuzaa. Nineteen other Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds.