Six die in new Israeli air strike

Friday's attack was the biggest since Hamas formed a new government

Six Palestinian militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, hospital officials have said.

Palestinians said the target was a training camp used by breakaways from several militant groups.

It follows a series of attacks in the region, including an Israeli missile strike on a car on Saturday which left at least two dead and two wounded.

Six Palestinians were also killed on Friday by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Israeli military said Saturday's second attack had targeted a camp used by militants associated with the Fatah group of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Earlier in the day the Israeli army fired at a car occupied by militants who had fired a rocket.

"They fired the rockets, they got into the car and we hit the car," an Israeli army spokesman told the Reuters news agency.

The strike took place in the Shijaia neighbourhood of Gaza City, near the boundary with Israel.

On Friday five militants and a child died outside a militant training camp near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in the biggest attack since the Hamas militant group formed a new government.

The boy killed had been travelling in a car with his father, a leading militant from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

At least 12 people were injured in the attack.