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Summary Eight people were also wounded in the air raid.
Palestinians fired more than 40 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday injuring three people, while Israeli air strikes on the territory killed three Gazans, police and medics said.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two of the three injured by the rocket fire were in serious condition, while public radio identified them as immigrant farm workers from Thailand.The radio added that a house had taken a direct hit by a rocket.Palestinian medics said earlier that three fighters preparing to fire rockets were killed in as many Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight. Eight others were wounded.The rocket fire and air raids come amid a spike in tension after an Israeli soldier was seriously injured in a bombing during a routine patrol along the fence in the Kissufim area of Gaza early on Tuesday.
