Israeli airstrike, one killed in Gaza

One man was killed and another injured by an Israeli airstrike targeting a motorbike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medics said. Abed Okel Hijazi, 22, was killed in the strike west of Rafah, director of ambulance and emergency services Yahya Said Khader said, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported Hospital officials said they identified the dead man as a former member of the Popular Resistance Committees militant group who had shifted allegiance to “Magles Shoura al-Mujahddin”, among Salafi factions that are a fringe presence in Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel’s army said in statement that one of the men targeted “was among those responsible for the execution of the terror attack adjacent to the Israel-Egypt border, in which an Israeli civilian was killed.” In June, Israeli airstrikes killed eight Palestinians over three days of heavy shelling, as Hamas’ military wing signed up to a truce mediated by Egypt.