(MENAFN) A 15-year-old Arab-Israeli civilian was shot and killed on Tuesday while working on a fence on the Egyptian border.
In detail, the army said in a statement that the shooting did not appear to be connected to militant action and that the Israeli and Egyptian militaries were investigating the incident.
Moreover, Israel's defence ministry named the victim as Nimr Abu-Amar an Arab Israeli working for a contractor firm it had hired to carry out maintenance work on the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Eilat.
He died of his wounds while being airlifted to an Israeli hospital from the remote Israel-Egypt border area in the Negev desert where the shooting occurred, an army spokeswoman said.
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