Story posted: Tuesday, 15. January 2008 by Claire Webmaster

A foreign volunteer in a western Negev kibbutz who was killed on Tuesday morning, January 15, 2008 when he was shot by a Palestinian sniper. The 20-year-old man from Ecuador, was working in a potato field in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, near the central Gaza Strip, about 100 meters from the perimeter fence, as an Israel Defense Forces operation killed at least 15 Palestinians in ground and air raids on Gaza City. An emergency team was called to the scene and took the man, who was in serious condition, to the kibbutz infirmary, where he died of his wounds. All photos by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.

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