Israeli airstrike kills one militant, injures four in Gaza

“IDF forces guarding the border with Gaza face a growing threat from hostile terror groups attempting to destabilize the situation on the ground”, said the IDF spokesman, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.

Palestinian hospital officials said a 26-year-old man was killed. The man was identified as Mousa Zaiter, 23.

That brought the number of Palestinians killed since October 1 to at least 145.

Ali, who was born in 1951, ran away from home just months after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip (and the rest of historic Palestine) in 1967, without even informing his parents of his decision.

Hamas sentenced four Gazans to death by hanging on Wednesday after charging them with spying for Israel, the Israeli news site Ynet reported.

Locals said that the air strike struck a beach area 1km from the Israeli border fence.

The court charged the four Palestinians of passing security data to the Israeli intelligence security related to the movement of militants targeted and killed in Israeli air strikes.

Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the besieged enclave meanwhile have come under frequent fire near the Israeli-enforced “buffer zone” on both land and seasides.

Relations with Sweden, however, have deteriorated since it recognised Palestinian statehood previous year, and Netanyahu lambasted a call by the Swedish foreign minister to investigate whether Israeli forces were guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinian attackers.

Israeli aircraft “targeted a terror cell plotting to detonate an explosive device against (military) forces stationed along the border of the northern Gaza Strip”, the Israeli army said.

The Israeli aerial bombing coincided with another naval attack targeting the same location.

Nine Turks were shot dead in the May 31, 2010, clash when Israeli marines stormed a flotilla organized by a Turkish charity, which ignored orders to turn back as it tried to breach an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian child mourns the murder of his sibling by Israeli terrorists.