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Four Palestinian militants killed in Gaza clashes with Israel

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An Israeli air strike killed three militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Islamist group Hamas said, after an overnight clash left a fourth Palestinian gunman dead and five Israeli soldiers wounded.

It was the worst violence between Israeli and Palestinians in the coastal enclave since a ceasefire was agreed last November at the end of an eight-day conflagration.

The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted a tunnel used by militants to facilitate attacks on Israelis and accused Hamas, Gaza's rulers, of breaching the terms of the ceasefire.

A Hamas source said three of its men were in the tunnel at the time of the attack and died in the blast.

Hours earlier, one Palestinian militant was killed and five Israeli soldiers wounded after violence broke out when Israeli forces detonated part of a separate tunnel that they had recently uncovered stretching from Gaza into Israel.

Hamas has said it dug the tunnel. Israel says the underground chamber ran for 1.7km (1 mile) and was intended to let militants cross deep beneath the border fence and carry out surprise attacks.

The Israel-Gaza frontier had been mostly quiet for the past year following the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.

However, on Monday Gaza militants fired two rockets at a southern Israeli coastal city and Israel bombed what it said were two concealed rocket launchers in northern Gaza. There were no casualties in those incidents.

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Crispian Balmer)

(Source : Reuters)

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Four Palestinian militants killed in Gaza clashes with Israel

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