Two Palestinian boys shot dead in Gaza

Israeli forces shoot tw Palestinian teenagers  in Gaza during confrontations in town of Khan Younis

Some 2,500 Palestinians were killed inthe 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza
Some 2,500 Palestinians were killed inthe 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza

Israeli security forces have killed two Palestinian teen boys in the Gaza Strip during confrontations, less than 24 hours after six people were shot dead while protesting along the border with Israel.

The Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday said 13-year-old Marwan Barbakh and 15-year-old Omar Othman were shot with live ammunition in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The ministry said in a post on Facebook that the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of October now stood at 20, with nine killed in the Gaza Strip, and 11 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Recent violence is not of the intensity of two Palestinian uprisings in the late 1980s and early 2000s but it has prompted talk of a third "intifada".

In separate incidents in East Jerusalem Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians after they reportedly attacked Israelis.

A 16-year-old Palestinian was killed on Saturday near occupied East Jerusalem's walled Old City after he stabbed two Orthodox Jewish men, Israeli police said.

Earlier on Saturday, another Palestinian was shot dead by paramilitary police after he opened fire at them during late-night clashes at the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp, police said.

Hamas, Palestinian group which controls the Gaza Strip, said in a statement that the victim was a member of their organisation.