Summary It was the ninth day of Israel's Operation Protective Edge.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - New Israeli air and tank strikes in Gaza on Wednesday killed several people, medics said, bringing the death toll from Israel's operation in the besieged Palestinian territory to 205.
A strike on a house in the southern city of Rafah killed two men, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP, and a separate raid killed a young man who witnesses said was an Islamic Jihad militant.
Further Rafah strikes left two men dead, Qudra said, while a raid on the home of Mohammed al-Arjani in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed his son Abdullah, 19.
About an hour later, tank fire from inside Israel hit the eastern part of Khan Yunis, killing one person, Qudra said, later adding that another man was slain there, 33-year-old Mahmud Abu Dakka.
Some of the first raids on Wednesday morning targeted homes of senior Hamas officials, including Mahmud al-Zahar, but there were no reports of casualties.
It was the ninth day of Israel's Operation Protective Edge, which aims to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza militants.
Since July 8, militants have fired nearly 1,000 rockets and mortars at the Jewish state, and Israel has carried out about 1,500 strikes against targets inside the Gaza Strip, the army says.
Tuesday saw Israel's first fatality, when a man died from a rocket attack near the Erez border crossing.
Four Israelis have been seriously wounded by rocket fire, and Israel's air strikes have hurt more than 1,500 Palestinians.
International efforts towards a ceasefire collapsed Tuesday, as Hamas rejected an Egypt-proposed truce, and Israel resumed its bombing raids hours later after continued rocket fire.
