Group claims missile attack on Israel's Negev

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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of Fatah said it fired a missile toward the Negev amid Israeli shelling in central Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike killed a member of the group and one other person in Gaza earlier on Thursday.

The Al-Aqsa Brigades said it fired a missile toward the Mishmar HaNegev kibbutz in response to "the assassination that took place today." It was only the group's initial response, a statement said.

Residents told Ma'an that Israeli tanks and warplanes fired on the Zeitoun area of Gaza City on Thursday evening. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage caused by either attack in Gaza or the Negev.

The escalation came after an Israeli airstrike killed two people in the central Gaza Strip. Two more were injured in the explosion, which witnesses said hit a parked car near Omar al-Mukhtar street.

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