IOF Opens Fire on Civilians Collecting Scrap and Rubble in Vicinity of Erez Crossing

At approximately 8:30 am on Wednesday 2 November 2011, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire frequently on a group of Palestinian workers collecting scrap and rubble.
They were about 400 meters from the border fence between Gaza and Israel.
  The workers were collecting rubble in the destroyed industrial zone near Erez crossing, which is located at the edge of the so-called “access restricted area” (also called the “security buffer zone”), northwest of Beit Hanoun, North Gaza district.
  No casualties or injuries were reported but the workers abandoned the area.
Rubble workers collect the remaining rubble in damaged industrial facilities in order to sell them to stone factories, which then sell the recycled rubble at low prices.
  Dozens of these workers have been arrested, injured, or killed by the IOF over the past few years.