Israeli troops open fire on Palestinian worker in Gaza

Palestine News Network - A Palestinian worker was injured on Monday when Israeli troops stationed east of Gaza City opened fire on him.

Palestinian sources said that a group of workers were collecting construction materials near Gaza City's eastern border with Israel when troops stationed there opened fire at them, injuring one.
Since Israel enforced its siege on Gaza five years ago and stopped allowing construction materials, Palestinian workers have been forced to approach the borders to collect rubble from homes destroyed by the Israeli army.

Palestinian sources said that since last November Israeli troops have killed two workers and injured 129 others trying to gather construction materials.

In related news, a series of overnight raids by the Israeli ended on Monday morning with the arrests of at least five Palestinians and the erection of several checkpoints around the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

In the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli soldiers arrested Muhammad Ahmed Abu Sabheh and Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Ubeid and took them to an unknown location after raiding their homes and searching their belongings. Local sources said the army set up at least two checkpoints around Hebron and stopped passing cars to check identifications.

Three Palestinian workers from the village Battir, near Bethlehem, were arrested during clashes in Jerusalem with Israeli troops. Nidal Mustafa Adwan, 27, Raed Ibrahim al-Qaysi, 37, and Hassan Muhammad Adwan, 34, were arrested for not carrying the correct permits....
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