Olmert threatens Gaza offensive
Israeli PM’s warning comes as Israeli raids target fighters from the Hamas movement.
Gaza clashes
In Friday’s raids, a member of the armed wing of Hamas died in an exchange of fire between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli military, emergency medical services said.
Two people were injured in the fighting, which broke out after Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed into the Gaza Strip.
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The Israeli army said it had entered the territory in an attempt to prevent rockets from being fired by Palestinian fighters.
Hamas said in a statement that its fighters had fired anti-tank rockets at the troops.
An air raid on the village of Beit Lahiya in central Gaza reportedly targeted a Hamas base causing a number of injuries.
The girl’s mother and another woman were wounded in the air raid by an Israeli drone which the Israelis said had targeted Palestinian armed groups.
The girl and her mother were outside their house near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza when a drone fired a missile, witnesses said.
The Khan Yunis hospital identified the girl as Aya al-Manjar and said her mother was critically wounded.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack, saying: “The air force conducted a raid and fired at Palestinian gunmen.”
She said the attack targeted the area from which Palestinian fighters had earlier fired rockets that hit a kibbutz, or commune, in southern Israel, killing the Israeli man and wounding several.