Israeli helicopters strike Gaza targets

Palestinian medical sources said Monday that three Palestinians had been wounded by shrapnel in the air raids and a 28-year-old man shot dead by Israeli troops overnight in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The first strike targetted a metal workshop in the northern part of Gaza City, while the second missile hit another workshop in the southeastern Zeitun district, they said.

A third missile was fired at a workshop in the Nusseirat refugee camp south of Gaza City.

It was the second time within several weeks that the workshops in Zeitun and Nusseirat had been targetted.

A spokesman for the Israeli army said the air force had targetted weapons workshops in Zeitun and in the Jabalya refugee camp just north of the city, but he had no information about the strike on Nusseirat camp.

Meanwhile, Israel's attorney general called on rabbis Monday to temper their vocal opposition to the uprooting of settlers over fears that they are inciting violence.

"The rabbis and representatives of all tendencies must act with prudence and moderate their words which are in danger of misinterpretation and exacerbating tensions," Menachem Mazuz said, according to a justice ministry statement.