Israeli occupation troops have shot and killed a Palestinian taxi driver as he drove near an Israeli army post in a southern Gaza refugee camp. Witnesses said Rafat al-Hams, 27, was heading away from the Israeli post in the Rafah refugee camp when he was hit. Israeli troops rolled into the camp on Gaza's southern border before dawn, demolishing some homes, witnesses and medics said. They said troops and armoured bulldozers were clearing land on the outskirts of the camp and firing machine guns sporadically. Six other Palestinians were lightly wounded. Palestinian security sources said at least eight homes had been demolished. Violence has intensified in occupied Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon forges ahead with a plan to crush Palestinian resistance movements before evacuating soldiers and Jewish settlers out of the impoverished strip. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Raafat al-Hams was killed in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (AFP)