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Israeli aircraft have fired missiles at targets in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring two Palestinian militants.

Militants fired rockets into Israel on Friday. One person in the town of Sderot was injured by shrapnel.

Rockets hit near the Israeli town of Ashkelon, 15km (nine miles) from Gaza. No injuries were reported.

On Thursday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said it had no more food to distribute in the Gaza Strip, because of the Israeli blockade.

A five-month truce between the two sides has been under increasing strain in recent weeks.

Israel says it will not re-open border crossings unless Palestinian militants stop firing rockets from Gaza.

Militants say the mortar and rocket fire is their response to what they say is Israeli aggression against Gaza.

'Disaster'

John Ging, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), said on Thursday that handouts for 750,000 Gazans would have to be suspended until Saturday at the earliest, and called Gaza's economic situation 'a disaster'.



Israel earlier denied entry to a convoy carrying humanitarian supplies. It has prevented the transfer of all goods into Gaza for nearly a week, blaming continuing rocket"