GAZA CITY, December 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli occupation forces early Monday, December 16, outside a Jewish colonial settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.

Hassan Shalukah, 22, was shot dead outside the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, near the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis, medics at the Palestinian town's Nasser hospital said.

Israeli military sources claimed it was an infiltration bid.

Also at dawn Monday, the Israeli army killed two activists from the Hamas resistance movement as they tried to enter Israel from the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials and witnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Israeli soldiers gunned down Adel Shabaat, 20, and Mohammed Odwan, 24, near the Palestinian autonomous town of Beit Hanoun, they said.

Sources added that occupation forces are detaining the bodies of the two martyrs and a witness told AFP “the two bodies could be seen near the Israeli security fence east of Beit Hanoun.”

Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority officials announced Sunday, December 15, that Saudi Arabia would finance the building of as many as 600 housing units in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinians whose homes have been destroyed by Israel military forces in the Intifada, or uprising, news agencies reported.

The director general of the Ministry of Housing, Gaza, Marwan Abdel Hamid, was quoted by news agencies as saying that 400 housing units would be built in the West Bank and another 200 in Gaza.

The housing project, Abdel Hamid said, would hold the name of Saudi Prince Nayef Ben Abdel Aziz, chairman of the Saudi treasury committee to support the Palestinian uprising.

This announcement comes exactly two weeks after Saudi foreign policy advisor Adel al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia no longer gives money directly to relatives of Palestinians who carry out resistance operations, but instead helps families in need through humanitarian organizations

“What we do in that case is we give money to the Palestinian Red Cross and to the International Red Cross and to the Red Crescent Society and to the United Nations organizations to provide money to Palestinian families in need,” Al-Jubeir said December 2, in an interview with CNN.

“We do not designate who they should give the money to,” he said.  Al-Jubeir made it clear that Saudi officials “do not encourage people to engage in suicide bombings."

In May, Israeli officials said they captured documents in Palestinian territory they occupied that Saudi Arabia sent large amounts of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, as well as to the resistance movement Hamas – a group on the U.S. terrorist watch list.