Israeli gunfire and tank shelling killed one Palestinian and wounded five others east of Khan Yunis in Gaza on Tuesday, a Palestinian medical source and witnesses told AFP. Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for the Hamas-run medical services in Gaza, and hospital officials named the dead man as 22-year-old Hassan Abu Rok Qadeeh.
Witnesses told AFP Qadeeh was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of Palestinian factions that has claimed responsibility for a barrage of mortar fire into Israel in recent weeks. The Israeli army said it was looking into the incident and had no immediate comment. Tensions have been rising on Gaza's border with Israel over continued rocket fire into the Jewish state and retaliatory and often deadly Israeli air raids. Both sides have ramped up their rhetoric, warning that an escalation could result in full-blown war, just two years after Israel's launched the devastating Operation Cast Lead in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
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