Two Palestinians were killed late Sunday and early Monday in two Israeli air raids in northern and southern Gaza Strip including a member of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
The armed wing said in a communiqué that Ekrema Abu Oda, 22, was killed in an aerial bombing east of Beit Hanun. It said that the Qassam fighters were confronting an Israeli unit that infiltrated into northern Gaza Strip at 0240 am local time Monday when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired missiles at a group of the fighters killing Abu Oda and wounding four others.
Medical sources on Sunday told PIC in Rafah that an Israeli missile raid on a civilian car east of Rafah city killed a Palestinian and wounded four others, one of them was reportedly in a critical condition. They said that Nur Al-Dabari was killed near Shouka town east of Rafah when his car was hit with two missiles.
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