Palestinian protesters throw shoes at Ban Ki-Moon

Angry Palestinian protesters have hurled shoes and stones at a convoy of vehicles transporting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon into the Gaza Strip.

The protesters pelted the convoy as it crossed through a checkpoint in northern Gaza from Israel on Thursday.

Nobody was injured and the convoy left the area.

Many of the protesters were reportedly the relatives of the Palestinians languising in captivity of Israel.

The UN chief is on a trip to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories apparently to push for the resumption of PA-Israeli talks that stalled in September 2010 after Israel declined to renew a 10-month freeze on its illegal settlement construction in the West Bank.