At least seven Palestinians were killed in separate Israel drone attacks on Gaza on Sunday. <br /> <br />GAZA CITY (AFP) - Nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli drone strikes on Gaza, medics said Monday, after militants fired dozens of rockets at southern Israel. <br />Gaza Strip health services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said two Palestinians were killed and two others wounded in the drone attack east of Rafah, in southern Gaza. <br />He later pronounced a third Palestinian who had been wounded in the attack dead. <br />Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, said meanwhile that six of their men were killed by the Israeli strike on Rafah. <br />Qudra did not confirm the Qassam statement. Witnesses said Qassam members were killed when a tunnel collapsed on them following the Israeli strike. <br />The Israeli army said it had "targeted nine terror sites and concealed rocket launchers across the Gaza Strip", noting in a statement its attacks came after militants fired over 25 mortars and rockets at Israel on Sunday. <br />Late Sunday two other Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Bureij refugee camp, near central Gaza's border with the Jewish state, emergency services said. <br />The Israeli army said it targeted "terrorists involved in rocket launching". <br />Qudra also said five civilians were injured in Beit Hanun after a rocket fired by Gaza militants fell short of Israel. <br />The strikes come after the brutal murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khder on July 2 triggered four days of violent clashes that broke out in east Jerusalem and have spread throughout Arab towns in Israel.
