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Five Gaza militants killed in air strikes | |
(about 17 hours later) | |
Four Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip at the weekend killed five militants, Palestinian officials say. | |
Two militants died and two other people were injured near Deir al-Balah on Sunday, ruling Hamas officials said. | |
Israel's military said it had targeted a "terrorist rocket squad". | |
On Saturday evening, an air strike killed the leader of a Gaza-based Salafist group and another militant in Jabalia and, a few hours later, another militant was killed in Khan Younis. | |
The Salafist leader killed in Jabalia, Hisham al-Saedni, was hit on a motorcycle. Israel said it was responding to a rocket attack on southern Israel. | The Salafist leader killed in Jabalia, Hisham al-Saedni, was hit on a motorcycle. Israel said it was responding to a rocket attack on southern Israel. |
Saedni, 43, is said to have headed the Mujahideen Shura Council. | |
On Friday, a rocket apparently fired by the same group landed in the courtyard of a residential building in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. No-one was injured. | On Friday, a rocket apparently fired by the same group 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. | 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. |