A taxi driver from Rehovot was shot and killed when he took his cab for repair in a garage in the Gaza Strip today. Yehezkel Mizrachi, 29, had just entered a repair shop in the Jebaliya refugee camp on the outskirts of Gaza when shots were fired at him from short range, apparently from a pistol, army sources said. He died instantly. The army imposed a curfew on the camp area and searches were carried out.
Israeli drivers frequently use repair shops and garages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where prices are lower than in Israel.
In another incident, three members of the Golan family from a village near Hadera were injured in a grenade attack on their car as it was passing through the Gaza Strip last night, The husband, Asher, was seriously injured. His wife, Zvia and their four-year-old daughter, Limore, were slightly injured.
This attack was the first on Jewish travellers in the area for some months, though about a dozen local Arab residents have been killed in what officials believe was political action against people accused of collaborating with the Israeli authorities or charged by religious extremists with operating bars and trading in drugs.
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