GAZA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Palestinian sources said the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian gunman in the Gaza Strip as Israeli war planes launched 15 air raids over the area.
A spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the mainstream Fatah movement, said one of its activists, Lukman Mohammad Abu Zaki, was killed in armed clashes with the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said its soldiers fired at three gunmen approaching an army site outside the borders of the northern Gaza Strip, killing one, arresting another, while the third fled.
Meanwhile Gaza residents and eyewitnesses said Israeli warplanes launched five air strikes on farm lands east of Khan Younes in Gaza without reports of injuries.
In the northern strip, fighter planes launched 10 air strikes targeting a cave, which disconnected the electric power in the area.
Palestinian medical sources in the north said five people, including a three-month-old girl, received treatment for injuries from the air strikes.
The Israeli forces said they were targeting areas used by activists to fire locally-made rockets against Israel.
The Jewish state on Friday threatened to resort to all means to stop the Palestinian activists from launching the missiles against Israeli towns.
Around six Palestinian rockets were fired overnight.
