A shell fired from an Israeli tank has killed a Palestinian refugee in the Rafah camp in southern Gaza. Muhammad al-Ghariz died from shrapnel wounds on Thursday after the tank round sent fragments of rock and cement in all directions. Witnesses to the incident said the 30-year-old al-Ghariz had not been armed. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Israeli occupation tanks often storm the refugee camp in a search of tunnels in what is in effect an open air prison. Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada in September 2000, over 3400 Palestinians have been killed and over 28,000 injured. Some 989 Israelis have been killed and over 6700 have been injured in the same period. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Israeli soldiers inspect their tanks on the outskirts of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (AFP/File/Menahem)