Israeli troops guarding a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip have fired into a neighbouring Palestinian refugee camp, killing a man in his home.
They said the Palestinian (42) was closing a window in his home in Rafah overnight when troops at a watchtower in Rafiah Yam settlement overlooking the southern Gaza camp shot him dead.
Rafah has been a major flashpoint in a three-year-old Palestinian uprising, with regular raids mounted by Israeli forces against militants who smuggle arms from nearby Egypt.
An Israeli military spokeswoman denied there had been any operations today but said the shooting report was being investigated.
Last month, the army announced it had arrested a soldier who had admitted shooting an unarmed British activist in Rafah in April. The Briton, a "human shield" in the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, is clinically dead.