Hamas militant dies in Gaza airstrikes

A Hamas militant died Tuesday hours after he was seriously injured in an Israeli aerial attack in the Gaza Strip. The military wing of the Hamas controlling the costal strip claimed in a statement that the 29-year-old militant was one of its members. Adham Abu Selmia, a medical spokesman, said that the militant died clinically hours after he was injured at dawn. Early Tuesday, Israeli airplanes carried out a series of strikes in Gaza, targeting a group of Hamas militants, two Hamas training sites and a tunnel beneath Gaza's southern border with Egypt. Two more militants were wounded in the first airstrike, Abu Selmia said. The Israeli attacks came after Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza. The missile landed in Western Negev and caused no casualties or damage. No militant groups claimed responsibility for recent rocket attacks apparently to avoid confrontation with the Hamas, which has often sought to enforce unofficial ceasefire with Israel.