At least one Palestinian was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip early today, hours after Israeli missiles killed four militants and wounded 20.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said an Israeli air strike had targeted two armed gunmen who were close to the security fence with Israel, north of the Sufah crossing.
Palestinians react after an Israeli air strike in Rafah camp in the southern Gaza strip yesterday
"An Israeli force was operating close to the fence and they [the gunmen] were nearing the fence," she said.
Palestinian witnesses said the explosion rocked the courtyard of a residential house in the village of Khuvaa, near the southern town of Khan Younis.
The dead and wounded were members of the same family and were not militants, one of the wounded said.
Residents in Khuvaa said Israeli troops had pushed deeper into the village in a raid today and had detained 10 people. It was unclear if they were militants.
An Israeli military source said a force was in the area as part of ongoing operations there, adding that some people in the village had been detained.
Earlier residents said an Israeli force had briefly detained the head of the village municipality, Kamal Annajar, during a raid.
Mr Annajar, who was also a local leader of the militant group Hamas, was later released.
Hours earlier in separate air strikes on two vehicles, Israeli aircraft killed four Hamas members in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. A further 20 people were wounded in the attacks.
Israel has pressed an offensive in the Gaza Strip for more than two months to try to recover a soldier who was abducted in a cross-border raid and to try to put a stop to rocket attacks across the border.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed, about half of them civilians.