GAZA, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A Palestinian farmer was killed Saturday by Israeli gunfire in a village east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, Palestinian security sources said. 

   The sources said Ibrahim al-Shawaf was killed in his farm in the Khozaa area east of Khan Yunis when Israeli troops stationed at the border between eastern Khan Yunis and Israel opened intensive fire at houses of local residents.

   Meanwhile, Israeli sources said soldiers stationed at the area opened fire at a Palestinian who tried to approach the Israeli fence for a possible attack.

   Palestinian sources and witnesses asserted that al-Shawaf was a farmer and he was working in his farm when Israeli troops sprayed gunfire and killed him. 

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