16-year-old Palestinian boy crushed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza

- A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Thursday

after being run over by an Israeli army bulldozer during a military
incursion in the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said.

Mahmud Kayed was run over by the bulldozer when it lurched towards a
group of youths throwing rocks at the vehicle during the army
incursion in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, they said.

Four Palestinians, including two militants from the Hamas movement
that has ruled Gaza for three months, were wounded by Israeli gunfire
during the operation, medics said.

The two militants, one of whom was seriously wounded, were injured by
helicopter fire, medics said.

Israeli bulldozers were ripping up farmland in the area, while
soldiers were going house to house searching for militants and
weapons, they said.

No comment from the Israeli army was immediately available.

The death brings to 5,866 the number of people killed since the start
of the second Palestinian uprising in in September 2000, the vast
majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.