<p>Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza’s border fence with Israel on Friday, a health official said, the first violence since a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers took hold a day before.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The shooting did not appear to pose an immediate threat to the Egypt-brokered cease-fire, which called for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The truce came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years.<br /><br />It appeared unlikely Hamas would retaliate for the Friday’s shooting because that could jeopardise the militant group’s potential gains from the cease-fire deal, such as an easing of restrictions on movement in and out of the Palestinian territory.<br /><br />Hamas officials were not immediately available for comment. Nafez Azzam, a spokesman for Gaza’s Islamic Jihad, said the shooting was a violation of the truce and that Egypt was informed.<br /><br />On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians approached Israel’s border fence in several locations in southern Gaza. Several dozen Palestinians, most of them young men, approached the fence, coming close to a group of Israeli soldiers standing on the other side. Some briefly talked to the soldiers, while others taunted them. At one point, a soldier shouted, “Go there, before I shoot you,” and pointed away from the fence, toward Gaza.</p>
<p>Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza’s border fence with Israel on Friday, a health official said, the first violence since a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers took hold a day before.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The shooting did not appear to pose an immediate threat to the Egypt-brokered cease-fire, which called for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The truce came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years.<br /><br />It appeared unlikely Hamas would retaliate for the Friday’s shooting because that could jeopardise the militant group’s potential gains from the cease-fire deal, such as an easing of restrictions on movement in and out of the Palestinian territory.<br /><br />Hamas officials were not immediately available for comment. Nafez Azzam, a spokesman for Gaza’s Islamic Jihad, said the shooting was a violation of the truce and that Egypt was informed.<br /><br />On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians approached Israel’s border fence in several locations in southern Gaza. Several dozen Palestinians, most of them young men, approached the fence, coming close to a group of Israeli soldiers standing on the other side. Some briefly talked to the soldiers, while others taunted them. At one point, a soldier shouted, “Go there, before I shoot you,” and pointed away from the fence, toward Gaza.</p>