REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, GAZA - Israeli air strikes killed seven Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Islamist group said, in the deadliest attacks in a surge of violence exacerbated by the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths and a Palestinian teen.

The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted "terror sites and concealed rocket launchers across the Gaza Strip", after about 25 projectiles were fired into Israel on Sunday. Rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza continued on Monday and one Israeli soldier was wounded, the army said.

Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have risen over the killing of three Jewish teenagers in the occupied West Bank, which Israel has blamed on Hamas, and of a 16-year-old Palestinian in East Jerusalem.

Israel on Sunday announced it had arrested six Jewish suspects in the apparent revenge murder of Mohammed Abu Khudair, whose charred body was found in Jerusalem on Wednesday, a day after Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, were buried. The three Jewish seminary students went missing while hitchhiking on June 12. Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied having any role in their disappearance.

Abu Khudair's death has touched off clashes between police and stone-throwing Arab protesters, which continued on Sunday night in East Jerusalem and in several Arab villages in northern and southern Israel. Police said they arrested 30 people.

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