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New Gaza air strike 'kills one' 'Four injured' in Gaza air strike
(about 2 hours later)
The Israeli air force has carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip, the second in as many days. The Israeli military has carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip, targeting what it said were Palestinian militants preparing to fire rockets into Israel.
The missile strike killed one man and destroyed a rocket launch pad, according to the Israeli Defence Force. Palestinian medical sources said four civilians were injured, one of them critically. Hamas officials said the attack had occurred near a cemetery.
But Palestinian sources told Reuters four men were injured, but no one was killed in the attack. But Israel said a member of a Salafist militant group, Jaljalat, was killed.
The strike came as reports suggested Israel and the Islamist group Hamas could be nearing the completion of a prisoner swap deal. On Thursday, two Palestinians were injured in an air strike on smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt.
On Thursday two Palestinians were injured in an air-strike on smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt. The strike reportedly came in response to to rocket fire the previous day by Palestinian militants.
Earlier this month several other tunnels and an alleged weapons factory were hit by Israeli missile strikes. Incidents of rocket fire from Gaza have decreased since Israeli forces launched a large-scale offensive last December and January, but there have been sporadic attacks.
Hamas have been in negotiations with the Israelis to complete a prisoner swap that would see IDF soldier Gilad Shalit released in return for hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel. In a statement issued on Friday morning, the Israeli military said its air force had attacked a group of militants "on their way to fire rockets from the northern Gaza Strip".
But Hamas officials said the indirect negotiations have hit a snag and are on hold until the end of the four-day Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. "Accurate hits, including the rocket launching pad, were identified," it added.
But the Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, said civilians who had been on their way to visit the graves of relatives were hit.
According to reports from Gaza, a group called Jaish al-Umma (Army of the Nation), an Islamist militant group affiliated with al-Qaeda, has said it fired several mortars into Israel overnight.
However, the Israeli army has said it was only aware of two mortars fired on Thursday, and that they did not reach Israel.