2 Palestinians, including teenager, killed in Gaza

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, at a protest near the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, Gaza’s Health Ministry said yesterday.

The ministry added that 46 others were wounded by Israeli gunfire. Thousands of Palestinians flocked to the frontier, continuing near-weekly protests that the territory’s Hamas rulers have has staged since March.

The Israeli military said the protesters burnt tires at several locations along the fence and threw explosives at the troops, prompting a response with “riot dispersal means and live fire.”

An aircraft also carried out two airstrikes in northern Gaza, the military said. Israeli troops have killed at least 145 Palestinians since protests began in late March, and a Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier in August.