Israeli civilian killed by Palestinian shots fired at Gaza perimeter fence by Kibbutz Nahal Oz
12/24/2013
An Israeli civilian, a contractor for the Construction Branch of the Ministry of Defense, was killed today by shots Palestinians fired in the direction of the Gaza perimeter fence at Kibbutz Nahal Oz. According to media reports, the man was fatally wounded by the Palestinian gunfire while working with a military team to repair the damage to the perimeter fence caused by last week’s heavy storms. A military helicopter airlifted the injured man to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, where he was pronounced dead. No details have been released about the man’s identity apart from his being a resident of the Bedouin community of Rahat.
B’Tselem strongly condemns the shooting of a civilian and reiterates that there cannot possibly be any legal or moral justification for the intentional targeting of civilians. The guiding principle that civilians must be kept out of the cycle of fighting applies to one and all, be they state, country or individual.
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