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<span style="font-weight:bold;">NABLUS (AFP)</span> &#8211; Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian on Saturday as he ran  towards a checkpoint in the West Bank shouting Islamic slogans,  Palestinian and Israeli officials said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a mortar round fired from Gaza wounded two  foreign workers in southern Israel, one of them seriously, an Israeli  military spokesman said.</p>
<p>Palestinian witnesses told AFP that Khaldoun Samudi,  23, was hit by several bullets as he was running towards an Israeli  checkpoint east of Nablus shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest).</p>
<p>According to Palestinian security officials, Samudi  was a member of the Islamic Jihad group in the northern West Bank town  of Jenin. He was the fourth Palestinian killed in the territory in a  week.</p>
<p>The Israeli military said soldiers shot and killed  Samudi as he ran towards the checkpoint “carrying two explosive devices  and a knife”.</p>
<p>The Palestinian had got out of a taxi and headed towards the checkpoint, shouting “God is greatest”, a spokesman said.</p>
<p>Samudi ignored orders to stop before the troops  opened fire on him, the spokesman said, adding that the military then  sent in bomb disposal experts to defuse the explosive devices he was  carrying.</p>
<p>The body of a naked man was seen being taken away from the scene in an ambulance.</p>
<p>Palestinian security forces spokesman General Adnan  Zamiri condemned what he called “this latest crime by the Israeli  occupiers who want to push the Palestinians into confrontation”.</p>
<p>On January 2, another Palestinian man was shot dead at the same checkpoint.</p>
<p>Elsewhere on Saturday, a mortar round fired from Gaza  wounded two Thai workers and damaged a building at the Nahal Oz kibbutz  in southern Israel, military radio said.</p>
<p>Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, Al Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>Three other rounds exploded later, without further casualties.</p>
<p>Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been  running high in the West Bank following violent deaths in the occupied  territory.</p>
<p>On Friday, Israeli troops shot dead an elderly  Palestinian civilian in Hebron in a case of mistaken identity as they  hunted a member of the Islamist movement Hamas freed a day earlier by  the Palestinian authorities.</p>
<p>And a Palestinian woman, Jawaher Abu Rahma, died last  week after inhaling massive amounts of tear gas fired by Israeli troops  at a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier, Israeli and  Palestinian activists said.</p>
<p>The Israeli army cast doubt on the authenticity of that version and ordered an investigation.</p>
<p>On Friday, an Israeli soldier was killed and four  were wounded in an accidental explosion during an exchange of gunshots  and mortar fire with Palestinians along the Gaza border, an army  spokesman said.</p>
<p>A unit came across three “terrorists” apparently  trying to place explosive devices near the security barrier that  separates Gaza from Israel, he said.</p>
<p>They opened fire but for an “unknown reason” a mortar  they tried to fire exploded “accidentally” killing one soldier and  wounding four others, including an officer, the spokesman said.</p>
<p>According to army figures, Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired about 230 rockets and mortar rounds at Israel last year.</p>
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