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Summary Violence in and around Gaza entered its fourth day on Sunday.
Fighters fired over 20 rockets into Israel and the air force hit targets near Gaza City, a day after a rocket killed an Israel.In what was the first air strike since Saturday afternoon, the Israeli air force fired at a target near BeitLahiya, just north of Gaza City, seriously wounding a 12-year-old boy, medical sources said.Gaza security sources said militants from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) had earlier been seen firing medium-range Grad rockets into southern Israel from the same area.Tensions in and around the Gaza Strip have soared since Thursday when militants staged a series of bloody shooting attacks in the Negev desert, killing eight Israelis and prompting a wave of bloody tit-for-tat exchanges.It also sparked a diplomatic crisis with Egypt after Cairo said five policemen were killed by Israeli fire as soldiers pursued gunmen involved in the Negev ambushes.Israel blamed Gazas Popular Resistance Committees for the bloodshed and in retaliatory air strikes has killed 15 Palestinians, including seven PRC militants and two from Islamic Jihads armed wing.Another 48 people have been injured, half of them women and children, medics said.In the same period, militants have fired more than 100 rockets and mortars at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one and injuring dozens more, one critically.Three illegal Palestinian workers sleeping rough near Ashdod were also injured by rocket fire from Gaza on Saturday, two of them seriously.On Saturday night, rockets ploughed into Beersheva, which lies some 40 kilometres (24 miles) from Gaza, killing a man and injuring 15, one critically, Israeli medics said.
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