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<p>GAZA CITY  (Ma’an) &#8212; Israeli forces resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early  morning Saturday targeting a private car in the Tel As-Sultan  neighborhood of Rafah in the south.</p>
<p>The missile hit the car  directly killing Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades leader Taysir Abu Sneima and  his assistant Muhammad Awaja and injuring critically a third militant  identified as Shadi Az-Zatmah, medical officials said.</p>
<p>The  early morning victims brought the death toll in the coastal enclave to  16 since Thursday, with more than 60 injuries. Six of the dead have been  identified as civilians.</p>
<p>Spokesman of the Gaza Strip’s higher  committee of ambulance and emergency service Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed  that two dead bodies and a critically injured man were transferred to  the Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.</p>
<p>In the northern Gaza  Strip, Israeli warplanes targeted a car parked in the Ad-Daraj  neighborhood of Gaza City causing material damage to several vehicles in  the lot. No injuries have been reported from the blast.</p>
<p>A third  strike targeted a training base for Hamas’ military wing in Jabaliya,  in the northern Gaza Strip, and a fourth raid strike hit the Al-Umour  neighborhood in Khan Younis in. No injuries have been reported in either  hit.</p>
<p>The border are in Rafah iwas also hit by an Israeli  missile from the air while Israeli artillery resumed shelling targets in  Gaza City Saturday morning causing no injuries.</p>
<p>Another air  raid on Jabalia injured two civilians in Iseila Street. Both were  evacuated to Kamal Udwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>An  Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the strikes, saying the airforce  had targeted overnight a &#8220;terror activity site,&#8221; a &#8220;vehicle containing  weaponry,&#8221; wherein a secondary blast was detected on impact,&#8221; &#8220;three  hamas commanders&#8221; in southern Gaza Strip and a smuggling tunnel near  Rafah.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=376879&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter">Maan News Agency: Early morning strikes kill 2 Hamas militants</a>.</p>
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