The IDF on Monday said it would open an investigation into the death of Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najar, who was killed during a Gaza border fence riot in June. The Military Advocate General's Office decided to act after studying the findings of an initial inquiry, a statement said.
The military said in June that initial findings from the investigation showed she was not deliberately shot by soldiers.
Gaza health officials and witnesses said soldiers shot and killed Najar, 21, a volunteer medic, as she ran toward the border fence, east of Khan Younis, in a bid to reach casualties in a border riot.
Also Monday, a Palestinian man was killed and 25 were wounded during violent protests along the Gaza Strip's beachfront border with Israel, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Witnesses said dozens of protesters in the north of the Hamas-controlled enclave burned tires and threw stones at Israeli troops positioned behind the border fence and that soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas.
The Gaza Health Ministry said a 27-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli gunfire.
The IDF, estimating the crowd at around 3,000 protesters, said explosive devices were also thrown at troops deployed on the Israeli side of the fence along the beach.
The soldiers, an IDF spokesman said, responded with "riot dispersal means and live fire."
On Sunday, three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the Gaza frontier, medics in Gaza said. Israel said it targeted Palestinian terrorists trying to blow up part of the fence. The Gaza-based terrorist organization Islamic Jihad threatened to renew its attacks on Israeli communities in retaliation for the deaths of three Palestinian teenagers.
Some of the protesters on Monday held photos of the three youngsters. The Gaza Health Ministry said two were aged 13 and one was a 14-year-old.
