A Gaza-based human rights group on Sunday expressed "deep concern" at Israeli troops’ use of excessive force in Friday’s fatal shooting of a young Palestinian

A Gaza-based human rights group on Sunday expressed "deep concern" at Israeli troops' use of excessive force in Friday's fatal shooting of a young Palestinian.
  
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said in a statement that occupation soldiers shot dead Odah Jihad Hamad, 27, and wounded his brother Raddad, 22, as they picked through scrap in wasteland next to the Gaza-occupied Palestinian territories frontier at Beit Hanun in the north of the coastal strip.
  
"Israeli forces used excessive force and directly opened fire at them, although it was clear that the two civilians were collecting steels and plastics from the landfill near the border fence," the PCHR said.
 
The Israeli military claimed it opened fire at Palestinians near the border in response to “Palestinian violence, including the firing of a mortar round that hit southern Israel and throwing rocks at soldiers.”
  
The PCHR said troops had also used unnecessary force at a separate border incident on Friday, when they wounded three Palestinians near Jabaliya about five kilometers (three miles) from Beit Hanun in response to stone-throwing at soldiers.
  
"PCHR is deeply concerned over these crimes, which further prove the use of excessive force by Israeli forces in disregard for the civilians' lives," it said. "These grave breaches constitute war crimes."