Two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded in the strike on an apartment in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medical officials said.
The Israeli military said its war planes struck militant rocket launchers.Meanwhile, a volley of rockets from Gaza triggered air raid sirens near Israel's southern border, breaking a 12-hour lull that had raised hopes Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations would be able to secure a truce.
The cross-border exchanges this week have been between Israel and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza after the territory's Hamas rulers.along with some of their wives and children as they slept in their homes.Hundreds of homes have also been badly damaged leaving 165 Palestinians homeless, Gaza's housing ministry reported.
Belal Bashir, a Palestinian living in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, whose family home was reduced to a heap of rubble in an airstrike, said:"The dream that we built for our children, for our sons, has ended.Islamic Jihad has retaliated with more than 800 rockets fired toward densely populated parts of Israel.
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