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Palestinian teen killed by Israeli army
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A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by the Israeli army that opened fire on a group of Palestinians protesting against a buffer zone being built on the border between the east of the Gaza strip and Israel.
Moaweya Hassanein, 19, was shot in the abdomen and carried to a hospital, where he died of wounds.
An Israeli human rights group has released video footage which showed a non-violent crowd of Palestinian protesters being taken surprise by a gunshot fired by an Israeli soldier on the other side of a nearby security fence.
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Human Rights Organisations condemn the Israeli 'Shalit Law' bill
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AlJazeera Video: Israeli troops storm Gaza flotilla
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Israeli forces have attacked aid ships attempting to break the blockade of Gaza.
Commandos lowered themselves from helicopters and onto the Mavi Marmara – the lead ship in a flotilla of six vessels which are carrying humanitarian aid for the Palestinian territory.
Israeli Army Radio said up to 16 people may have been killed in the operation.
Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal on board the Mavi Marmara sent this report before communications were cut.
Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza.
Up to 16 people were killed and dozens injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said.
The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.
Footage from the flotilla’s lead vessel, the Mavi Marmara, showed armed Israeli soldiers boarding the ship and helicopters flying overhead.
Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal, on board the Mavi Marmara, said Israeli troops had used live ammunition during the operation.
The Israeli Army Radio said soldiers opened fire “after confronting those on board carrying sharp objects”.
Free Gaza Movement, the organisers of the flotilla, however, said the troops opened fire as soon as they stormed the ships.
They also said the ships were now being towed to the Israeli town of Haifa, instead of Ashdod to avoid waiting journalists.
Earlier, the Israeli navy had contacted the captain of the Mavi Marmara, asking him to identify himself and say where the ship was headed.
Israeli intervention
Shortly after, two Israeli naval vessels had flanked the flotilla on either side, but at a distance.
Organisers of the flotilla carrying 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid then diverted their ships and slowed down to avoid a confrontation during the night.
They also issued all passengers life jackets and asked them to remain below deck.
Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Jerusalem, said the Israeli action was surprising.
“All the images being shown from the activists on board those ships show clearly that they were civilians and peaceful in nature, with medical supplies on board. So it will surprise many in the international community to learn what could have possibly led to this type of confrontation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli police have been put on a heightened state of alert across the country to prevent any civil disturbances.
Sheikh Raed Salah,a leading member of the Islamic Movement who was on board the ship, was reported to have been seriously injured. He was being treated in Israel's Tal Hasharon hospital.
In Um Al Faham, the stronghold of the Islamic movement in Israel and the birth place of Salah, preparations for mass demonstrations were under way.
Protests
Condemnation has been quick to pour in after the Israeli action.
Thousands of Turkish protesters tried to storm the Israeli consulate in Istanbul soon after the news of the operation broke. The protesters shouted "Damn Israel" as police blocked them.
"(The interception on the convoy) is unacceptable ... Israel will have to endure the consequences of this behaviour," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has also dubbed the Israeli action as "barbaric".
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and several European legislators, were with the flotilla, aiming to reach Gaza in defiance of an Israeli embargo.
The convoy came from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and was comprised of about 700 people from 50 nationalities.
But Israel had said it would not allow the flotilla to reach the Gaza Strip and vowed to stop the six ships from reaching the coastal Palestinian territory.
The flotilla had set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday and aimed to reach Gaza by Monday morning.
Israel said the boats were embarking on "an act of provocation" against the Israeli military, rather than providing aid, and that it had issued warrants to prohibit their entrance to Gaza.
It asserted that the flotilla would be breaking international law by landing in Gaza, a claim the organisers rejected.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, officially declared a three-day state of mourning over Monday's deaths.
Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Sweden have all summoned the Israeli ambassador's in their respective countries to protest against the deadly assault.
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Five Gazans killed by Israeli fire
Five Palestinians fighters have been killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, officials and medics have said.
A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees said three of the group's members had been killed in an Israeli air strike over the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Islamic Jihad identified the two men killed in the other incident as members of their group.
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air raid about an hour after two makeshift rockets were fired from the Strip.
Israeli authorities said the projectiles landed in open areas and caused no injuries.
Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, said the three Palestinians were killed in the northern Gaza Strip and had been brought to a morgue in Gaza City.
Israeli troops had earlier shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who had snuck across the border in the southern part of the territory, according to a military spokeswoman.
"There was an exchange of fire in which they were killed," she said, adding that no Israelis were Five Gazans killed by Israeli fire Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza on Monday, killing up to 10 people.
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Israeli navy kills four Palestinians off Gaza coast
Men wearing diving suits were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel, claims military spokesman.
At least four Palestinians were killed when Israeli navy commandos opened fire on what they said was a squad of militants in diving suits off the coast of Gaza today.
The Palestinians "were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel", a military spokesman said.
The spokesman declined to give any further details about how the military had identified the men or what they had been doing in the sea.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militant offshoot of Fatah, said the men killed were members of its marine unit and had been training. One Palestinian was missing, and there were no Israeli casualties.
The attack follows a week in which the Israeli navy has faced international criticism for its assault on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship in a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, in which nine activists were killed.
An anonymous military official told Israel's army radio yesterday: "This will be a shot in the arm for the commandos after the hard week they have been through."
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Today's incident was followed by an air strike on what the military spokesman described as "terrorists trying to fire rockets into Israel" from the northern Gaza Strip.
He could not confirm casualties, although at least one Palestinian was believed to have been seriously injured.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said: "The bloody escalation today is a desperate attempt by the occupation government to divert the world attention away from the massacre committed against the flotilla."
Israel today released a list of five passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara whom it accused of having links with al-Qaida, Hamas and other militant organisations.
A statement from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) named Ken O'Keefe, who it said was a US and British citizen, as a "radical anti-Israel activist and operative of the Hamas terror organisation".
"He attempted to enter the Gaza Strip in order to form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organisation," the statement said.
The British Foreign Office said O'Keefe did not have UK citizenship, while his website says he renounced his US citizenship on 1 March 2001.
O'Keefe, due to be deported to Ireland by Israel after attempting to reach Gaza on the Mavi Marmara, rejected the charges as "slanderous".
The IDF said the other passengers with alleged terrorist links were Fatimah Mahmadi, a US resident; two Turkish citizens, Hassan Iynasi and Hussein Urosh; and a French citizen, Ahmad Ummimon.
According to Israeli media reports, the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has held at least half a dozen telephone conversations with world leaders over the past few days. He has faced intense pressure to agree to an international commission of inquiry into the assault on the aid flotilla.
The Israeli government is keen to deflect an international investigation, preferring an internal inquiry, possibly with limited US representation.