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 Israeli aircraft have struck Hamas security installations in Gaza, killing at least six Palestinians, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died.Israeli jets on Thursday also killed four Egyptian border guards near the Rafah border town with the Gaza Strip, the official MENA news agency quoted an Egyptian military official as saying. “An Israeli plane was pursuing infiltrators on the other side of the border until they reached Rafah and fired at them. There were several Central Security members there and they were hit by the gunfire,” the official told MENA. Gaza residents said three compounds controlled by Hamas were hit in the Thursday night raids on positions in Rafah. Five of those killed were members of the Popular Resistance Committees, while the sixth was a young boy. Medical officials said that 17 others had been wounded. Meanwhile, hundreds of Egyptians gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo to protest against the killing of four military personnel in Israeli border attacks. Protesters urged the authorities to expel the Israeli ambassador and sever ties with Tel Aviv in response to the killings, Press TV reported. They also condemned Israel's ongoing military attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip. The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) confirmed to the AFP news agency that its leader had been killed, vowing that it would take revenge “against everything and everyone”. The PRC spokesman also denied that the group was involved in the attacks on Thursday. The Israeli military said that at least ten rockets had been fired from Gaza into southern Israel after the aerial bombing of Rafah. It said that two rockets fired at the city of Ashdod “caused damage and injuries at a synagogue and school”, according to a statement. An Israeli drone also hit the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza city on Friday morning, but medical sources told Al Jazeera that it caused no casualties. Israeli security forces beefed up security in the wake of the strikes, Al Jazeera correspondent Cal Perry reported from Jerusalem. He said that thousands of people were seen marching towards the mosque before midday prayers on Friday, and that hundreds of Israeli police officers had also been deployed.
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