Israeli hurt by Palestinian gunfire on Negev kibbutz

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An Israeli man was lightly wounded on Wednesday morning when Palestinian militants opened fire on the fields of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip border.

The man sustained light wounds near his eye while working in the farmlands of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, after one of the bullets struck a water tank, causing shrapnel to spray.

Gunfire on the fields of Ein Hashlosha has become a regular occurrence of light, though casualties are rarely reported.

Some two months ago, a 20-year-old Ecuadorian kibbutz volunteer, Carlos Chavez, was killed when shot in the back by a Palestinian sniper.

Also on Wednesday, four Qassam rockets hit the western Negev, two of them striking a kibbutz in Sha'ar Hanegev regional council.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968696.html