Israel and Hamas have fought three wars in the Gaza Strip since the group wrested control of the territory from the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in 2007.
The Israeli military said Palestinians rolled burning tires and hurled rocks at soldiers stationed on the border.
Soldiers on the Israeli side of the border opened fire after their calls to the Palestinians and warning shots were ignored, she said.
He said that while millions of other refugees around the world were cared for by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), only the Palestinians have their own body.
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On Tuesday, 25-year-old Fadi Ibrahim Anjar was killed in clashes with Israeli troops after trying to damage the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip.
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During the 2014 summer war with Israel, Hamas terrorists on several occasions made their way into Israel through terror tunnels, although they did not manage to reach civilian areas.
A spokesperson for Hamas denied any responsibility for the tunnel, stating that it "strongly condemned" the structure and observed that the revelations would be used by Israeli media and government policy agencies to justify the continuing apartheid-like conditions now being inflicted on Palestinians. "It is unacceptable that students and staff are placed at risk in such a way", he said.
"Hamas is using school children as human shields, and that is the enemy we have been fighting for years; an enemy that commits two-fold war crimes", he stated, adding that "On the one hand, [Hamas] intentionally attacks innocent civilians all the while hiding behind children".
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum denied the tunnel belonged to his or any other Gaza militant group.
US -brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed in 2014. Tel Aviv claims that out of that figure, 167 were killed while carrying out stabbings, shootings or car-ramming attacks in which 37 Israelis, two American tourists, and a British student were killed.
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