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An Israeli has been killed in a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. | An Israeli has been killed in a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. |
The Hamas militant group says it fired at least 20 rockets, including eight at the town of Sderot, a frequent target. | The Hamas militant group says it fired at least 20 rockets, including eight at the town of Sderot, a frequent target. |
The rocket fire came hours after an Israeli air strike killed five members of Hamas's military wing as they drove near Khan Younis in southern Gaza. | |
The Israeli fatality occurred when one of the unguided Hamas rockets hit a college on the outskirts of Sderot. | The Israeli fatality occurred when one of the unguided Hamas rockets hit a college on the outskirts of Sderot. |
Hamas officials said the five dead included a senior engineer who built rockets and commander who led a rocket squad. | |
In other violence on Wednesday, a militant from the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement was killed overnight in an air strike in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. | |
Two other Palestinians were killed and two wounded in an afternoon air strike in Gaza City, witnesses said. | |
In the West Bank, Israeli undercover forces killed a militant and wounded a bystander in a daylight raid in Nablus, Palestinian sources said. | |
The violence comes a day after two senior UN envoys told the Security Council that no progress has been made towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement since the launch of US-sponsored talks late last year. | |
Israel carries out frequent military action coastal strip in an effort to curb near-daily rocket and mortar fire against southern Israel. | |
Media reports say the latest deaths bring to at least 208 the number of people killed since US-sponsored peace talks resumed three months ago, most of them Palestinian militants. |