Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians and injured another late Monday near the central Gaza Strip's Karni border crossing into Israel, an army spokesman said.
The Palestinians were setting a car-bomb near an Israeli position when they were spotted, the spokesman said, without giving further details.
The deaths bring the toll of the year-old intifada, or anti-Israeli uprising, to 871, including 672 Palestinians and 176 Israelis.
Two Palestinians also died in Gaza City Monday during clashes between police and Islamist students, in the worst violence between Palestinians since the start of the intifada -- JERUSALEM (AFP)
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