In the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians as they approached the settlement of Atzmona carrying what appeared to be a bomb.
As the group approached the settlement, a police van raced across in front of them, uncoiling barbed wire, which blocked their path.
The first encounter occurred just after midnight, when Israeli officials said their troops spotted two militants approaching the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
According to B'Tselem, which uploaded the footage to YouTube, a large group of settlers, some masked and armed, approached the village from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar and began throwing rocks and starting fires.
The Israeli military said it shot dead three armed Palestinians late Thursday night as they approached the Jewish settlement of Tel Katifa in the southern Gaza Strip.
Also, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an armed Palestinian who was crawling as he tried to approach the Jewish settlement at Morag, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Just after 7pm on June 19th , 2013 in an operation dubbed "Repressive-Search Action 100", 63 police officers, including masked riot police, approached the Roma settlement informally known as Budulovska.
In more violence in Gaza, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman carrying a large briefcase as she approached the Jewish settlement of Morag in southern Gaza before dawn today.
Approaching the 20th anniversary of the settlement act, some native corporations are at a turning point, trying to decide if development that could be destructive is worth the price of making money for shareholders.
