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Israeli forces have killed at least six members of the Palestinian movement, Hamas, during a raid in the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have killed at least five armed members of the Palestinian movement Hamas, as well as another gunman and a teacher, in raids in Gaza.
Hamas, the militant group which has controlled Gaza since June, said the men belonged to its military wing. Witnesses said Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft launched an incursion near Jabaliya sparking clashes with gunmen.
Reports say that in another incident, a teacher was killed and three students injured when a school was hit. The teacher, 38, was killed when a surface-to-surface missile hit a school in Beit Hanoun in a separate raid.
Witnesses said Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft launched an incursion near Jabaliya refugee camp. There are no reports of Israeli casualties in the engagements.
Israel has stepped up military action against Hamas since it claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide bombing in Dimona - its first in Israel since 2004.
Hamas said an armed member of Islamic Jihad was killed along with its five members in fighting with the Israeli troops.
Three pupils, all aged 16, were also wounded when the Israeli missile hit the school, hospital and education ministry officials said.
"What was the fault of a teacher, an emissary on a sacred mission?" the ministry said in a statement.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops had not targeted the school but had fired on a Palestinian rocket crew.
The army is checking whether the building was hit by a stray missile, she said.
Hamas says it has fired 40 rockets and 60 mortars at southern Israel since the new upsurge in fighting began with a deadly Israeli airstrike on Tuesday afternoon which killed seven Hamas security force members.
Correspondents say the violence threatens to overwhelm renewed peacemaking efforts spearheaded by the leader of Hamas's factional rival Fatah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas, does not recognise Israel and opposes the peace process. It ousted Mr Abbas's forces from Gaza in June, but he remains in control of Palestinian-administered parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.