3 Palestinians injured in Gaza border clash
Mourners stone IDF post, provoking return fire
Soldiers near the border with the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
An angry crowd attending the funeral of two Islamic Jihad terrorists stoned an IDF lookout post adjacent to the border fence with Gaza and the troops opened fire in return, injuring three people, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
The IDF said the crowd drew close to the border fence and ignored warnings to retreat. The soldiers then fired warning shots. The IDF said it was looking into whether those shots caused the injuries.
The two Islamic Jihad members who were being buried were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Monday.
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