(Corrects Fayyad's title) By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, July 10 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired two rockets at Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israeli troops killed an unarmed infiltrator from the coastal area, straining a fragile truce. The rockets landed in an open area in southern Israel and no one was hurt, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, said it fired the rockets in response to Israeli violations of the June 19 ceasefire, and Israel's killing of one of its members. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who crossed into Israel from Gaza and ignored their calls to stop. Only later, Israeli forces saw that he had not been carrying a weapon, the spokesman said. It was the first fatality along the Israel-Gaza frontier since the Egyptian-brokered truce went into effect. A Hamas spokesman said the killing was "a serious challenge" to the ceasefire. The truce deal calls on Hamas to prevent cross-border rocket fire and attacks from the Gaza Strip and on Israel to halt its raids and ease an economic blockade. Israel tightened restrictions on the passage of people and goods to and from the impoverished territory after Hamas seized control of it a year ago. United Nations officials said Gaza's goods crossings were still shut rather often despite the truce. "There is not enough fuel, not enough food, there is not enough of anything," John Ging, an official with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that aids refugees, said in Gaza. Although Israel has responded to cross-border rocket attacks by frequently shutting Gaza's crossings, records compiled by Western officials show up to a 44 percent increase in goods imports in recent weeks, including a 30 percent rise in fuel. BARRIER In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited a town where violent protests against Israel's barrier in the territory led to a two-day Israeli curfew in the community of 5,000 that was lifted on Tuesday. Fayyad travelled to the town of Nilin, 20 km (12 miles) east of Tel Aviv a day after the fourth anniversary of a ruling by the International Court of Justice that termed the network of razor-wire tipped fences and cement walls illegal. "The ruling, which you all know, requires cessation of building of the wall, removing the parts of it that have been built and also dealing with the issue as a form of colonisation and settlement activity," Fayyad said. Israel says the barrier, which cuts through land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East war, helps to stop Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching its cities. Palestinians call the project a land grab that could deny them a contiguous and viable state. In the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli troops raided several charity organisations and a medical clinic and closed down a local television station, Palestinian officials said. Over the past several days, Israel has raided 15 Nablus charities over their suspected ties with Hamas. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh accused Palestinian Authority officials of backing the Israeli operations. But Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel-Razzak Yahya condemned the raids and said the Palestinian Authority would continue dealing with institutions that Israel ordered closed. (Additional reporting by Atef Sa'ad in Nablus and Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan in Jerusalem; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Palestinians carry the body of Salem Al Hemadi during his funeral at Dir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip July 10, 2008. Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed Palestinian, Al Hemadi, ...
