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Hamas, Israel Trade Strikes, Leaving 1 Palestinian Dead

Agence France-Presse

   JERUSALEM - A Palestinian was killed by Israeli airstrikes Saturday,
   the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said, in an attack
   launched in response to rocket fire.

   Dozens of strikes hit the Palestinian enclave in the early hours,
   targeting bases of the strip's Islamist rulers and allied groups, a
   security source in Gaza said.

   The Israeli army said the strikes targeted "a wide range of Hamas
   terror targets," including a Hamas naval site, a military compound and
   a weapons manufacturing site.

   One 27-year-old man was killed, the health ministry in Gaza said. It
   did not say whether he was affiliated with any faction.

   The sound of explosions could be heard up and down the impoverished
   territory, an AFP correspondent said.

   A Hamas source said they had fired at the Israeli aircraft carrying out
   the raids and the Israeli army confirmed fresh "incoming fire" from
   Gaza.

   The strikes came in response to at least 10 rockets fired from Gaza
   late Friday at southern Israel.

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