Israeli killing continues unabated – three fighters and young girl assassinated in Gaza
Three Hamas members killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday
Young girl killed by Israeli tank fire in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical officials said six-year-old Hadeel Smari was decapitated by the tank shell explosion while she was in the back yard of her house. They say the girl's body was recovered from a house that was hit by a tank shell near Khan Younis.
Israeli officials said they were unaware of any civilian casualties.
Four Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinian rockets or mortars this year.
About 500 people, nearly all of them Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and more than half of those armed militants, have died in violence since the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace process was revived in November 2007.