GAZA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian young man was killed Friday afternoon during clashes with Israeli soldiers stationed along the border areas between eastern Gaza and Israel, a Palestinian official said.
Mohamed Abu Seda, 26, was killed and three others injured by Israeli gunfire in the east of al-Bureij refugee camp near the border with Israel, Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of Gaza-based health ministry, told reporters.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of Palestinian young men gathered close to the fence between eastern Gaza and Israel to protest the Israeli blockade imposed on the coastal enclave since 2007.
They said when protesters began to throw stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them.
Every Friday, Palestinian young men walk to the borders in protest against Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Since Oct. 2015, a new wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians has left more than 230 Palestinians killed and a couple hundred others injured.
BAGHDAD Chris Conley Shirt , May 5 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on Sunday in the United States outside a contest for cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed.
In a statement read on its al-Biyan radio station, the IS said that "two soldiers of the caliphate" opened fire on an exhibition where the contest was held in the city of Garland in Texas.
"We tell America that what is coming are worse and more bitter, and that you will see from the soldiers of the IS what will aggravate you," said the statement.
The radio station is based in the IS-controlled city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
On Sunday evening Mitch Morse Shirt , two men drove up to the Culwell Event Center in Garland, and started shooting when the "Draw Mohammad" contest was coming to an end, wounding an unarmed security guard.
The two were shot dead by police.
The attack in Texas was the first inside the United States to be claimed by the extremist