Israeli air raids have killed a Hamas rocket maker and wounded 13 other people in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian faction that rules the territory told Al Jazeera.
Issa Batran, a commander of Hamas' armed wing, was killed overnight after a missile hit his trailer in central Gaza.
A Hamas training camp in Gaza City and smuggling tunnels along Gaza's southern border with Egypt were also hit.
"This is a serious escalation perpetrated by the occupation government [of Israel]," Fawzi Barhoum, the Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.
"It is a direct result from the Arabs pushing for direct talks with the Zionists," he said, referring to diplomatic efforts to persuade Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, that he should advance from indirect negotiations to direct talks with Israel in pursuit of a Middle East peace pact – a course that Hamas and other groups in Gaza oppose.
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