Israel planes kill seven in Gaza strikes

RAFAH: Israeli planes killed seven Palestinians and wounded another six in Gaza Friday

Two of the Gaza dead were members of the Popular Resistance Committees. Two more were from Islamic Jihad.

Shortly before midnight (2100 GMT) on Friday an Israeli aircraft hit and killed three people -- one a five-year-old child -- on a street in Gaza City centre. Three passers-by were wounded, Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the emergency services in the Hamas-rule strip told this news agency.

An earlier Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip killed a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees. The group named him as Samed Abed, 25.

It said that a raid on the Gaza City neigbourhood of Zeitun took the life of PRC member 22-year-old Mohammed Enaya and medics said another person was injured there and two seriously hurt in nearby Tofah.

Palestinian medical officials said that two more men were killed in a missile strike as they rode a motorcycle in the vicinity of the Bureij refugee camp.

The Al-Quds Brigade said that one of the men was their activist Emad Abu Abda.

A total of 14 Gazans have been killed since Thursday evening, when Israel began raids. Medics said more than 40 were injured. (AFP)