Israeli occupation army on Monday evening announced that it shot and killed a Palestinian earlier in the day for allegedly sneaking into Zekem area north of the Gaza Strip.
Hebrew media sources reported that a Palestinian youth on Monday infiltrated about 500 meters into Zekem in the 1948 occupied Palestine and exchanged fire with an Israeli military force.
Posting a photo of a young man lying on the ground with a Kalashnikov rifle next to him the media said that the gunman was killed after an Israeli tank and drone opened fire at him.
A spokesman for the Israeli occupation army on Monday morning claimed that an Israeli patrol came under fire by a Palestinian gunman in the northern Gaza Strip.
There were no damages or injuries among the Israeli soldiers he added in a statement.
Gaza Ministry of Health has not yet given any information about the killing or injury of a Palestinian citizen in northern Gaza.
