1 dead in Israel air strike on Gaza motorcycle –– medics

GAZA CITY –– An Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle killed one person in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said Wednesday, in the second day of an air campaign against the Palestinian territory.

The strike in Beit Lahiya killed Rafiq al-Kafarneh, 30, and seriously wounded another person, medics at Kamal Odwan hospital, where they were taken told AFP.

It brought to 29 the death toll from Israel's campaign, which began Tuesday, to stamp out rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

At least two women and five children were killed in air strikes in Gaza, as well as a number of militants from the armed wing of Hamas, which controls the Palestinian territory.

The military carried out raids against more than 150 targets on Tuesday, it said, and militants fired back more than 130 rockets, including several at Tel Aviv, Israel's largest city, and Haifa in the north.

Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, also claimed firing four rockets at Jerusalem, the first time since 2012.