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18 January 2013
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At approximately 4:20 pm on Friday 18 January 2013, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fired live ammunition and gas canisters at a group of young Palestinian men who were in Abu Safiya area near the separation fence between Gaza Strip and Israeli east of Jabaliya.
As a result, Yousif Ismail Abu Odwa, 21, sustained a wound in the head as a gas canister fell over his head.
Medical sources at Kamal Odwan Hospital described his injury as light.
The sporadic firing lasted for about one hour.
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