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| Two dead in Israel-Gaza border violence | Two dead in Israel-Gaza border violence |
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| A three-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, doctors say. | A three-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, doctors say. |
| The attack came hours after an Israeli civilian was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper while repairing the border security fence. | |
| According to reports, Israeli shells hit the east of Maghazi refugee camp later in the central Gaza Strip. | According to reports, Israeli shells hit the east of Maghazi refugee camp later in the central Gaza Strip. |
| The girl's mother and two of her brothers were wounded in the attack, reports say. | The girl's mother and two of her brothers were wounded in the attack, reports say. |
| There are also reports of Israeli warplanes targeting a Hamas training base in southern Gaza. There were no immediate reports of casualties. | |
| There has been intermittent violence along the border since a ceasefire ended an eight-day conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza in November 2012. | |
| Israel considers Gaza a "hostile territory" after it was taken over by the anti-Israel Islamist Hamas movement in 2007. | |
| Witnesses in Gaza told AFP that Palestinian militants had fired mortar rounds at Israeli military vehicles east of the security fence near Nahal Oz. | |
| They said they had seen an ambulance at the scene. | |
| On Sunday, a bomb reportedly planted by Palestinian militants exploded on a bus in central Israel. It was the most serious attack inside Israel in more than a year. | |
| Last week, a 22-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead near Beit Hanoun, close to the border with Israel. | |
| The Israel Defense Forces said its soldiers had opened fire after trying to contain outbreaks of violence. |