The airstrike came hours after attacks by militants killing seven Israelis near Eilat, Southern Israel.
The targeted air strike killed six people, including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab.
EILAT, Israel — Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.
Israel blamed an armed Palestinian group from neighboring Gaza. Israeli forces killed five of the gunmen along the border with Egypt, the military said, and later launched an air strike inside Gaza that killed five other militants from the same group as well as a child.
Three blasts shook Gaza early Friday, including one that killed a 13-year-old boy, according to a Gaza hospital official.
But the Israeli military did not immediately confirm reports of three more air strikes targeting a security compound, a home and the area of the smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Gaza-Egypt border.
The Israeli military said three of the men killed in Gaza had been involved in planning the attack.
Gunfire continued on both sides of the border late into the evening. After nightfall, Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-missile system intercepted a rocket fired by Gaza militants at the city of Ashkelon, the military said.
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