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By ISABEL KERSHNER and MERNA THOMAS for the New York Times
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The Israeli military said it struck about 40 targets in Gaza throughout the day, including what it described as 11 “terror squads,” some of whom were preparing to fire rockets. At least seven Palestinians were killed in the strikes, including four who were hit on Sunday evening. Three of those were killed in an airstrike aimed at a motorcycle in Khan Younis and one was killed in a strike that hit agricultural land near Jabaliya, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza.
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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies


Palestinian medical sources have reported that four Palestinians, including two children, have been killed and dozens injured, after the army fired missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip.

Updated: 14:52 A Palestinian child, identified as Anwar Mustafa Za’anin, 17, died of earlier wound, at the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza.

One Palestinian was seriously injured when the army fired a missile into a car in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health denied reports of his death, and said the wounded man is in the Intensive Care Unit of a local hospital.

A woman was killed, and her family was injured when the Israeli air force fired a missile into a home in the Bani Soheila area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The slain woman has been identified as Amani Abed al-Bakara, 35.

Also, a Palestinian child, identified as Ahmad Mohammad Atiyya al-Masri, 14, was killed, and at least three Palestinians were injured, when an Israeli drone fired a missile into Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza.

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