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| Gaza crisis: Israel kills three top Hamas commanders | Gaza crisis: Israel kills three top Hamas commanders |
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| An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza has killed three senior Hamas military commanders, militants say. | |
| Mohammed Abu Shamala, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar died in the air strike near the southern town of Rafah. They were among six people killed, Palestinian rescue services said. | |
| Hostilities resumed on Tuesday, with each side blaming the other for the collapse of peace talks in Cairo. | Hostilities resumed on Tuesday, with each side blaming the other for the collapse of peace talks in Cairo. |
| Israel has vowed to pursue its campaign until "full security" is achieved. | |
| Six weeks of fierce fighting have left at least 2,103 people dead, all but 67 of them Palestinians and most of them said to be civilians. | |
| Key leaders | |
| The three commanders killed were key to operations including smuggling, tunnel construction and capturing the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the BBC's Yolande Knell reports. | |
| Mr Attar was the most senior commander in the south and was seen taking Mr Shalit from the car and handing him over to the Egyptians during the prisoner exchange in 2011. | |
| Mr Shamala was the Rafah commander said to have been responsible for planning the capture of Mr Shalit. | |
| Mr Barhoum, a close relative of Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, was a senior local commander. | |
| The wife and child of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday which he himself survived. | |
| In another development, Hamas warned foreign airline companies to stop flying to and from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport from Thursday. | |
| The group also confirmed it was abandoning efforts to negotiate a durable ceasefire with Israel. | |
| The UN Security Council has voiced "grave concern" at the resumption of hostilities and "called upon the parties to resume negotiations to urgently reach a sustainable and lasting ceasefire". | |
| Egypt expressed "profound regret" at the end of a 10-day period of "calm" during the talks, and said it would continue to try to secure a lasting truce. |