JERUSALEM—Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed a Palestinian militant and wounded four others shortly after an Israeli soldier was shot on the border of the coastal enclave, authorities said. Following the incident, Israel said it would halt a key transfer of Qatari funds to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said that an officer was lightly wounded after a bullet hit his helmet “during a riot in the southern Gaza Strip” and that Israeli tanks struck a Hamas militant position in response. A relative of Mohammed al-Nabaheen, 24, a Hamas militant who was reportedly killed by Israeli tank fire, reacts at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza Strip on January 22, 2019. An Israeli soldier was shot dead in July by a Gaza sniper.

Source: thestar January 22, 2019 18:22 UTC