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Last update - 16:12 03/01/2008 Bedouin fatally shot near Egyptian border with Israel By The Associated Press Tags: Kerem Shalom, Bedouin  An Egyptian Bedouin was fatally shot early Thursday near the country's border with Israel, an Egyptian security official and witnesses said. According to one eyewitness, the man was shot by an Israeli border guard. However, security officials wouldn't confirm where the shooting came from, saying only that a random bullet from the other side may have killed the man unintentionally. Advertisement The Bedouin was identified as Hamdan Sulieman Attaya, 45, a government employee. Attaya was shot while standing in front of his house at el-Dahniya village, just 300 meters from the Israel controlled border point of Kerem Shalom, the Egyptian official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Attaya's neighbor, Emad Sulieman, 27, said he heard women screaming and saw gunfire coming from an Israeli observation tower on the border. "I myself was hiding from the bullets, he said. We rushed him to the hospital but he died in the middle of the road, Sulieman said." Attaya's cousin, Moussa Abu Fereh said the family was preparing for his funeral and that Attaya was a martyr like those killed in Gaza by Israeli gunfire. Shortly after the shooting, Attaya's body was taken to the hospital in the Egyptian town of Rafah on the nearby Egypt-Gaza border, the security official, adding that intelligence and security services are investigating the shooting. The Bedouin shooting came as Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including the home of a senior Palestinian militant killed by Israeli troops last month, according to Palestinian officials. Located on the Israeli-Egyptian border, the Kerem Shalom crossing is different - but only a few kilometers (miles) away - from the Rafah crossing that is Gaza's only gateway to the world, straddling the boundary between the Palestinian strip and Egypt Bookmark to del.icio.us   Prisoner exchange Israel signs swap deal, begins exhuming bodies of Hezbollah guerillas. Provocative questions Gaydamak tells TAU student to 'shut up and go to hell' over Angola question.   1.   Probably not shot by Israeli border guards but no matter 16:59  |  Chick 03/01/08   2.   IDF cowards tend to kill civilians for fun, no surprise here 18:32  |  anti-racist 03/01/08   3.   Auntie Racist 19:07  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/01/08   4.   Normal for Israelies 20:00  |  Mohamed 03/01/08   5.   Egypt is intelligent 21:00  |  Gina 03/01/08   6.   That makes five. 21:16  |  Colin Wright 03/01/08   7.   War Crimes 21:23  |  Aaron 03/01/08   8.   so called peacemaker margie ex SA 21:55  |  Labhras 03/01/08   9.   re #4 `Normal for Israelies` 22:07  |  Colin Wright 03/01/08   10.   More likely shot by Egyptian police 22:31  |  Jake 03/01/08   11.   Labhras` apocryphal tales 22:39  |  Jake 03/01/08   12.   Labhras` spurious, pathetic remarks 22:49  |  Jake 03/01/08   13.   Celebrating L A B R A S 23:14  |  Labhras`s admirer 03/01/08   14.   Gaza. 01:27  |  sandra chitayat 04/01/08   15.   Gaza. 01:32  |  sandra chitayat 04/01/08   16.   #8 - What Labhras misses... 09:44  |  JES 04/01/08   17.   # 3 auntie rascist 22:05  |  korok 08/07/08   18.   #4 22:10  |  rokok 08/07/08

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