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Israel has launched a series of air raids against targets in southern Gaza.
Witnesses and Hamas security officials said late on Saturday that Israeli aircraft struck targets including tunnels running under the border with Egypt at Rafah within hours.
At least three people were wounded in the attacks, medical workers said.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the attacks.
Early on Saturday, Palestinian fighters fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, causing no injuries, the Israeli military said.
Hamas attacks
Witnesses said one of the tunnels hit by the Israeli raids collapsed, and three Palestinians who were working in it had not yet made it back to the surface.
Another of the strikes struck a former base of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing.
The flare-up of violence on the Israeli-Gaza border came just two days after the start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the US.
Fighters from the military wing of Hamas carried out two shooting attacks against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, killing four people in one incident, and wounding two in the other.
Hamas has vowed to carry out further attacks against Israeli targets in the coming weeks.
Peace talks
Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met in Washington on Thursday to resume 'direct talks' after a 20-month suspension.
Netanyahu and Abbas agreed to keep talking and produce a framework for a 'permanent peace deal'.
But Hamas rejects Abbas's negotiations.
Abbas broke off the last round of direct talks when Israel launched a military assault on the Gaza Strip in December 2008.
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Palestinians wheel an injured man to hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town, of Rafah.
Al-Jazeera
