BEIT HANUN, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces on Monday fired at a group of Palestinian farmers who were tending to their farms near the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun wounding one of them.

Security and medical sources told the PIC reporter that Abdullah Al-Za'nin, 19, was moderately wounded in the shooting.

The sources pointed out that the IOF soldiers intermittently fire at farmers and citizens who try to reach their lands near the security fence separating the Gaza Strip from Palestine occupied in 1948.

Meanwhile, IOF bulldozers on Sunday started paving the way for the construction of a bypass road for the settlers of the Sahve Shamron settlement near Deir Sharaf village west of Nablus city.

The IOF troops had confiscated 78 dunums of Palestinian citizens' lands near the village to construct the 12-meter wide road.

250 settlers are living in the settlement, which also accommodates an IOF base.