GAZA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Israeli troops on Monday shot and killed a Palestinian near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the army and Gaza medical staff said.

A Palestinian ambulance took his body to a hospital in Gaza. He was not immediately identified.

An Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv said troops had opened fire at a man whom they suspected was trying to plant a bomb on the Gaza side of the border fence.

Earlier, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft destroyed a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip which had earlier been used in an attack on southern Israel, the army said.

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