Israel kills 7 in series of Gaza air strikes

At least 7 people have been killed in Israeli air-strikes targeted against the launchers of Qassam rockets from the northern Gaza Strip. One strike hit a metal foundry in the middle of the working day, killing “the local commander of a rocket production crew” – or perhaps just an ordinary metal worker.

An Israeli warplane later staged two successive raids at the same site where crowds had gathered after darkness fell, wounding five Palestinians, including four members of Hamas’s executive force and a civilian, medics said.

Israel killed seven Palestinians in a series of air strikes in Gaza on Saturday, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants and a rocket manufacturer for a wing of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group.

Israel’s six successive attacks aimed at tightening its military pressure on the Hamas-ruled territory it wants to isolate, came three days after an offensive in which 12 Palestinians were killed in the coastal territory.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed three aerial attacks in Gaza, among them one that targeted a car of Gaza militants he said were involved in plotting a suicide bombing and in past attacks against Israel, and another against a weapons depot.

Palestinian security sources and witnesses said the three militants killed in the first strike in the town of Khan Younis were commanders of the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza.

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