A Palestinian was killed in a suspected Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza City today, witnesses have claimed.
The army had no immediate comment on the attack, which came as Israeli forces continued a massive offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
Earlier today Israeli soldiers shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl in the southern Gaza Strip after she approached an army watchtower in a tense border zone.
An Israeli military source said the girl was shot inside a restricted area when soldiers suspected she had a bomb. Palestinian medics said she had been hit by 20 bullets, five times in the head.
Iman al-Hams and two other girls, all of them wearing school uniforms, passed a watchtower in Rafah refugee camp near the Egyptian border, a scene of frequent violence in a four-year-old uprising, Palestinian witnesses said.
"Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag and tried to run," said one. "Bullets hit the bag and then soldiers opened fire on the girl."
An Israeli military source said the girl entered an area that was clearly marked with no-entry signs at a time there had been shooting from Rafah.
Soldiers opened fire towards her after she dropped her bag and ran. They suspected that the bag contained a bomb, the source said, but had not yet checked.