Summary Hamas officials say an Israeli airstrike has killed the commander of its military Jabari in Gaza.
Ahmed Jabari becomes the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago. Jabari has long topped Israel s most-wanted list.
Witnesses say Jabari was traveling in his vehicle in Gaza City when his car exploded.
Israeli officials had said in recent days that they were considering assassinating top Hamas officials following a wave of heavy rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
One Palestinian was killed and a second wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry said.
"One citizen was killed and another moderately injured in a Zionist strike on a car in Gaza City," spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
According to reports a top Hamas Commander Jaabari was targeted and killed in the attack.
Meanwhile four explosions which hit a small Israeli community along the Egyptian border on Wednesday are believed to have been caused by rockets fired from Sinai, an Israeli security source told AFP.
The incident took place in Bnei Netzarim which lies 1.5 kilometres (just under a mile) from the Egyptian border, and some five kilometres (three miles) from the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip.
"A rocket was fired from Sinai towards Bnei Netzarim... without causing any injuries," he said initially, later adding there had been four explosions in total in the community.
"What we know for sure is that there were four explosions in Bnei Netzarim and there is a sense within the army that they were fired from Sinai and not from Gaza," he said.
The Israeli military could not immediately confirm the information.
