Children gather round the site of a deadly Israeli air strike here in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis.<br/> <br />In the early hours of Sunday morning, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded another.<br/> <br />An Israeli military spokesman claimed the men targeted were preparing to fire rockets into Israel.<br/> <br />The killing comes just hours after another strike killed the leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group.<br/> <br />Both Hamas and Israel identified the man killed in the earlier attack as a Salafi jihadist.<br/> <br />About 40 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel this month.
