Eight people have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza, as the UN calls on all sides to find ways to end the violence.
Five Hamas militants were killed in a raid on the southern town of Khan Yunis, which also left one person wounded.
It was followed by a second strike on the same site that left three people wounded.
An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed that the military had 'carried out strikes' on vehicles in Khan Yunis.
Another militant from the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement was killed overnight in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
While two more Palestinians were killed in an afternoon air raid on a Gaza City neighbourhood from which rockets had just been fired.
The Israeli strikes came after an Israeli man was killed when one of 26 rockets fired from Gaza hit a college on the outskirts of the southern Israeli town of Sderot.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on a visit to Japan, vowed to continue operations in Gaza.
