Cease-Fire!!! Gazans wounded in Israeli air raid

Two people have been wounded in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials have said.

Hamas, the Palestinian group, said one of its members was injured in the attack as he was riding a motorcycle in the town of Khan Younis on Tuesday.

The raid came after an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian were reported to have been killed in a clash near the Kissufim border crossing.

Israel and the Hamas government of the Gaza Strip have maintained uneasy ceasfires since the end of Israel's three-week campaign in Gaza, in which 1,300 people were killed, on January 18.

Neither Hamas nor any other group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Israeli patrol near the Kissufim crossing.

The incident is the first apparent breach of the January 18 ceasefires.

The Israeli military said the blast came from a bomb planted by Palestinian fighters targeting a patrol near the Kissufim crossing into Gaza.

Palestinian medical workers said that after the incident, Israeli forces opened fire, killing a Palestinian farmer.

Civilian killed

Dr Moaiya Hassanain of Gaza's health ministry confirmed that a 27-year-old Gaza farmer was killed by Israeli gunfire along the border, but several miles away, said.

Two other Palestinians were wounded.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

Israel subsequently closed its crossings into Gaza to humanitarian aid traffic after briefly opening them in the morning.

Raed Fattouh, a Gaza border official, said Israeli officials informed him the closure was due to the attack.

Describing the attack on the Israeli patrol, Tamer Mishal, Al Jazeera's correspondent, reporting from Gaza, said an anti-armour shell was fired from inside the territory at an Israeli tank near the area of Khan Younis.

"Witnesses told Al Jazeera that the grenade directly hit an Israeli jeep," he said.

"Palestinian residents reported the sound of gunfire and Israeli helicopters in the area."