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Israeli aircraft struck at least seven targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said.Eleven people were wounded in the series of Israeli strikes, which targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, a metal foundry near Gaza City and the territory's non-operating airport. Those wounded in the evening strike on the airport in southern Gaza were brought to hospital in Rafah. One arrived on the back of a motorbike. The Israeli military confirmed several sites were hit, including two tunnels dug near the Israeli border fence, a weapons manufacturing site and the airport. The air strikes were a response to five rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in the past two days, a spokesman said. Israel also sent a letter of complaint to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to visit Israel at the weekend, and the UN Security Council. The latest air strikes took place the day of a meeting of Quartet Middle East power mediators in Moscow and just ahead of a planned visit by US envoy George Mitchell, who is seeking to relaunch moribund peace talks in the region.
