Five Gaza militants killed in air strikes
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Four Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip at the weekend killed five militants, Palestinian officials say.
Two militants died and two other people were injured near Deir al-Balah on Sunday, ruling Hamas officials said.
Israel's military said it had targeted a "terrorist rocket squad".
On Saturday evening, an air strike killed the leader of a Gaza-based Salafist group and another militant in Jabalia and, a few hours later, another militant was killed in Khan Younis.
The Salafist leader killed in Jabalia, Hisham al-Saedni, was hit on a motorcycle. Israel said it was responding to a rocket attack on southern Israel.
Saedni, 43, is said to have headed the Mujahideen Shura Council.
On Friday, a rocket apparently fired by the same group landed in the courtyard of a residential building in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. No-one was injured.
There has been a flare-up in violence across the border recently, with Palestinian militant groups firing rockets into Israel and Israel carrying out a series of air strikes against targets across the Gaza Strip.