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Israel strike kills militant in northern Gaza Strip | |
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An Israeli air strike has killed a militant leader in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say. | |
They say Hisham al-Saedni, the leader of a jihadist Salafist group, was killed as he rode a motorcycle in the town of Jabaliya on Saturday. | |
Gaza medics say a second militant was also killed in the strike and another person injured. | |
The air strike was in response to a rocket fired into southern Israel the day before. | |
Saedini, who is believed to be 43, headed the Mujahedeen Shura Council group, reports say. | |
In a statement, the Israeli Defence Force said its strike - one of four carried on Saturday - had targeted two "terror operatives". | |
It added that another two terror activity sites in central Gaza were hit in "response to the rocket fire towards southern Israel". | |
No casualties were reported in those strikes. | |
On Friday, a rocket apparently fired by the Mujahideen Shura Council landed in the courtyard of a residential building in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. | |
No-one was injured. | |
There has been a flare-up in violence across the border recently, with Palestinian militant groups firing rockets into Israel and Israel carrying out a series of air strikes against targets across the Gaza Strip. |