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Palestinian killed in Gaza air strike | |
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One civilian has been killed and at least 13 others have been wounded after an Israeli air strike on a militant base in Gaza, Palestinian medics say. | |
Missiles fired by Israeli aircraft early on Friday reportedly hit a Hamas training facility in Gaza City, sending shrapnel flying into nearby houses. | |
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air strike in the area. | |
Gaza-based militants had earlier fired rockets into Israel after another air strike that killed two militants. | |
Hamas, which governs the coastal territory, accused Israel of an "unjustified escalation against Gaza" and urged Egypt to intervene. | |
A spokesman for the group, Fawzi Barhoum, told the Associated Press that the violence was designed to "test the response of the Arab world... to a future war against Gaza and the Palestinians in general". | |
The Israeli military said it would continue to operate against those who would attack Israel. | |
It had earlier said the two militants killed when missiles hit a car on a crowded street in Gaza City had been planning an attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers along Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai peninsula. | |
Palestinian sources say one of those killed was a member of the military wing of the Fatah movement; the other was his nephew, a member of Hamas. | |
A health official in Gaza City, Adham Abu Salmia, told AP that Friday's air strike had set several houses on fire and sprayed several with shrapnel. | |
The destruction of one house left a 42-year-old man dead and injured seven members of his family, including his father, wife and five of his children, he said. |