<p>Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip on Monday (January 14), medical officials said.</p><br /><p>"He arrived to the hospital unconscious after he was shot with a live bullet that broke his head from the back," said doctor Ibraheem Abu Ayash from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, where the man was treated.</p><br /><p>Israel had no immediate comment on the reported shooting of a man the Islamist Hamas-run Health Ministry said was a farmer, in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, along the frontier with Israel.</p><br /><p>Palestinian officials said a gunshot to the head had critically wounded 21-year-old Mustafa Abu Jarad. Doctors in the hospital at Shifa said he had died of his injuries.</p><br /><p>The Israeli-Gaza frontier has largely been calm since Israel and Hamas agreed on Nov. 21 to a ceasefire ending eight days of fighting in which 170 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed.</p><br /><p>Since the truce, four Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli troops just along the border, most of them in an area Israel has deemed as off-limits for several years, citing the risk of attacks on its soldiers.</p><br /><p>Palestinians say the restrictions deny many farmers access to their fields.</p><br /><p>-Reuters</p>
