DHAKA: Israeli border police killed a Palestinian during a raid aimed at netting illegal immigrants in a suburb of commercial capital Tel Aviv early Saturday.

A police spokeswoman said, reports france24.com.

‘Border police carried out an operation this morning in a cemetery in Petah Tikva looking for foreigners residing in Israel illegally,’ Luba Samri said.

‘For reasons that are still unclear, a border policeman opened fire on an illegal resident, a Palestinian, who was there, and killed him,’ she said.

Israel requires that all Palestinians from the occupied territories apart from annexed Arab east Jerusalem have permits to be in the country.

The number of permits issued has dwindled to a trickle since the second intifada, or uprising, of 2000 to 2005.

Despite Israel’s construction of a vast separation barrier cutting through the West Bank, small numbers of Palestinians still manage to slip into Israel in search of illegal employment.

BDST: 1952 HRS, NOV 30, 2013