Israel army denies it killed Gaza boy A BOY aged six was killed and two other Palestinians wounded in Gaza today, but the Israeli military denied it was responsible. Ali Alshwass was killed east of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said. The Israeli military denied reports it had carried out an air strike killing the child. "According to the findings of a preliminary investigation, what happened in Khan Yunis had nothing to do with any operation by the Israeli military," a spokeswoman said. Witnesses said Israeli aircraft carried out at least four other strikes elsewhere in Gaza today. One targeted militants travelling in a car in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza city after they had fired rockets into Israel, witnesses said. Two civilian bystanders suffered minor injuries, they said. Raids also struck the Beit Lahiya area in the north and the Nusseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps in the centre of the Gaza Strip, without causing any casualties, witnesses said. Palestinian militants fired at least 23 rockets into southern Israel early Saturday, most of them hitting the town of Sderot close to the Gaza border, Israeli officials told AFP earlier. A man was wounded when a rocket hit a building in Sderot, a police spokesman said.