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| JERUSALEM — An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip and wounded two children on Monday evening, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian health officials, continuing the increased violence between Israel and Gaza this year. | JERUSALEM — An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip and wounded two children on Monday evening, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian health officials, continuing the increased violence between Israel and Gaza this year. |
| Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said the strike had eliminated a “real-time threat,” targeting a group that was preparing to launch rockets into southern Israel. Palestinian witnesses and officials said that a missile fired from a drone into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun had killed Musab Zaanin, 25, and wounded Yousef Nasser, 22, who died hours later from his injuries. The militant Islamic Jihad movement said that Mr. Zaanin was a member of its military wing. | Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said the strike had eliminated a “real-time threat,” targeting a group that was preparing to launch rockets into southern Israel. Palestinian witnesses and officials said that a missile fired from a drone into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun had killed Musab Zaanin, 25, and wounded Yousef Nasser, 22, who died hours later from his injuries. The militant Islamic Jihad movement said that Mr. Zaanin was a member of its military wing. |
| A spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza said a boy of 7 and a 12-year-old girl had been injured in the attack. | |
| Despite a 15-month cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamic movement that rules the Gaza Strip, the past two months have seen a steady simmer of strikes on both sides. | |
| The Israeli military counted 33 rockets fired from Gaza in the first five weeks of 2014, compared with 60 in all of last year. Palestinian officials say nine Gazans have now been killed by Israeli forces so far this year, after the Israeli military resumed its practice of targeted assassinations and cracked down on weekly protests near the border fence that separates Gaza and Israel. |