Two Egyptians Wounded by Gunfire Near Border with PalestineTwo Egyptian farmers were wounded Sunday by gunfire in Rafah bordering southern Gaza, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported.Egyptian police were quoted as saying that the bullets came from Israeli soldiers who were shooting at Palestinian demonstrators on the other side of the border. The two Egyptians were harvesting their olives near Salaheddin Street in Rafah, about 400 meters from the borderline when they were hit by stray bullets. The border line across the town separates Rafah into two parts, one of which is under Egypt's North Sinai governorate. The border town between Egypt and the Palestinian territories has been closed by Israeli security forces for much of the last month since the eruption of bloody clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers on September 28. This is the first time that Egyptian civilians were injured by bullet splinters when Israeli troops were firing on Palestinians. It was reported that last month when Israeli soldiers shot at Palestinian youths who threw rocks and bottles at them, some stray bullets had hit buildings in the town across the border on the Egyptian side, where 40,000 people live. But Egypt denied there was such an incident. |
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