At least one Palestinian was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip early today, hours after Israeli missiles killed four militants, witnesses said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said an Israeli air strike had targeted two armed gunmen who were close to the security fence with Israel, north of the Sufah crossing.
Palestinian witnesses said the explosion rocked the courtyard of a residential house in the village of Khuvaa, near the southern town of Khan Younis.
The dead and wounded were members of the same family and were not militants, one of the wounded told Reuters.
Residents in Khuvaa said Israeli troops had pushed deeper into the village in a raid today and had detained 10 people. Reuters reported that it was unclear if they were militants.
An Israeli military source said a force was in the area as part of ongoing operations there, adding that some people in the village had been detained.
Earlier residents said an Israeli force had briefly detained the head of the village municipality who is also a local leader of the militant group Hamas during a raid but said he was later released.
The Israeli military and witnesses said hours earlier in separate air strikes on two vehicles, Israeli aircraft killed four Hamas members in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. A further 20 people were wounded in the attacks.