Israeli Air Strike In Gaza Kills Palestinian Militant

At least 139 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the last three and a half months.

The Israeli military says it has carried out an airstrike against a group of Gaza militants placing explosives along the border.

A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces along the … But some al-Aqsa squads are still active in the enclave – while largely abiding by a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

The raid comes amid a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks in Israel and the occupied West Bank that began in October.

According to the daily, Hamas members have resumed digging attack tunnels close to the Israeli border fence shortly after the 50-day war ended in late August 2014.

The second is that an Israeli effort to locate and destroy the tunnels will lead the heads of Hamas’ military wing – Mohammed Deif, Marwan Issa and Yahya Sanwar – to stage a preemptive strike, despite the heavy price the Strip is liable to pay.

Israel’s blockade as well as a lack of donor contributions and coordination between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have been blamed for the delays.

An Israeli warplane targeted a site allegedly belonging to Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the town of Beit Lahia on Wednesday.

Spokesman for the Hamas movement Sami Abu Zuhri said in response to the meeting that Hamas welcomed the factions and the government living up to their responsibilities in Gaza, adding that the meeting was “serious and candid”.

In recent weeks, the Shin Bet has broken up three Hamas cells in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which were planning shooting attacks and kidnappings of Israelis, as well as suicide bombings inside of Israel.