GAZA CITY – A fresh Israeli air raid on Gaza early Sunday killed a 12-year-old and wounded another Palestinian, bringing the death toll from strikes since Friday to 17, medical sources said.

“An Israeli air raid east of the Jabaliya refugee camp killed a 12-year-old and wounded another Palestinian,” one medic told AFP.

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The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

The killing of the leader of the ultra-hardline Popular Resistance Comittees and a slew of other militants in Israeli raids on Friday unleashed a spiral of tit-for-tat violence on the Israel-Gaza border that has made for the highest death toll in more than three years.

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