One Palestinian killed seven injured in Israeli air strike

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Israeli air force has carried out a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip.

16 August,2011 01:50 pm

One Palestinian was killed and at least seven others were wounded, Hamas sources said. Some of the pre-dawn strikes targeted an area east of Gaza City, they said.The rocket had been fired from the Gaza Strip into the southern Israeli town of Beersheba.We learned of the martyrdom of the youth Musa Shtawe, 29, who died of his injuries after a strike east of Gaza City, Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services in the Gaza Strip, is quoted as saying by a foreign news agency.Recent weeks have seen an increase in mortar and rocket fire from Gaza after months of relative calm.Further south, two more raids were carried out east of Khan Yunis and on a tunnel under the border with Egypt near Rafah, Palestinian sources said.