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Summary Three Palestinians were killed and an Israeli wounded in air raids and rocket fire Saturday.
The air raids by the Zionist enemy are new crimes. We will not stay silent in the face of the crimes, said Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades of the Islamist movement Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip.A fresh Israeli air raid shortly after its announcement killed a Palestinian and wounded 10 people in a Gaza City residential district, Palestinian medics said.Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services, named the dead man as Ussama Ali, 42, who had been on his way to a wedding when he was killed by a missile apparently aimed at a passing motorcyclist.The rider was injured and taken to the citys Shifa hospital. The other casualties were either passers-by or residents of nearby apartments, Abu Selmiya said. The Israeli military said its air force carried out an attack in the northern part of the strip, where Gaza City is located, but did not give the precise location.The air force targeted a terrorist squad ... during final preparations to fire a rocket at Israel, it said in a statement. A hit was confirmed.Palestinian officials said the attack raised to three the number of people killed in seven Israeli strikes on Saturday and the number since Mondays outbreak of the latest round of violence to 15, with dozens wounded.At least 150 rockets and mortar shells have since hit Israel, wounding five people, among them four border police officers.Earlier in the day, Palestinian medics said, an Israeli drone killed a Palestinian man, Khaled al-Burai, 25, east of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.And a medic said Ali al-Shawaf, aged six, was killed and his father and another man wounded in a strike east of Khan Yunis, but the Israeli military denied it was responsible.The explosion that caused the death of the Palestinian child today was because of ordnance belonging to one of the terror groups, Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich, the armys foreign press spokeswoman, said on Twitter.Witnesses said Israeli aircraft carried out at least four other strikes elsewhere in Gaza on Saturday.One targeted militants travelling in a car in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City after they had fired rockets into Israel, witnesses said.Raids also struck the Beit Lahiya area in the north and the Nusseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, without causing casualties, they said.Raids on Friday night targeted two camps of the Brigades in the centre and north of the territory, and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. They wounded about 20 people, the health ministry said.
