JERUSALEM, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli aircraft targeted a Palestinian rocket-launching crew in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday night, just moments after it fired projectiles toward southern Israel, the Israeli military said in a statement overnight. "A short while ago, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) targeted a rocket launching squad in the northern Gaza Strip moments after it fired rockets towards southern Israel. A direct hit was confirmed, " the statement said. Gaza's armed Islamic Jihad movement, as quoted by media reports, said that a local commander named Mohammed Shkokani was killed in the airstrike. In one of the worst days of cross-border violence in recent weeks, militants...
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