Gaza City - Representatives of rival Palestinian factions headed to the Egyptian capital Cairo Monday to begin key talks aiming at reconciliation and the formation of a unity government.

The meeting on Tuesday will be the first substantive talks between President Mahmoud Abbas' secular Fatah movement and its bitter Islamist rival Hamas since the two groups severed ties following Hamas' violent take-over of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza  - An Islamic Jihad militant was killed early on Saturday morning in an Israeli airstrike on a group of militants in northern Gaza Strip, the group and medics said.

The Islamic Jihad armed wing Saraya al-Quds said in a statement sent to reporters that Yasser Faraj, one of its militants, was killed near the town of Beit Lahia in an Israeli airstrike.

The group said that Faraj was killed by the Israeli missile after he had fired a barrage of rockets from northern Gaza Strip at southern Israel. No other injuries were reported.

Gaza/Tel Aviv  - Palestinian militants fired another rocket into southern Israel Friday morning, after a day of pin-point Israeli airstrikes which retaliated against more such rocket attacks.

Israeli security forces were still tracking down the rocket's landing place, a military spokesman in Tel Aviv said.

Israel bombed four smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza town of Rafah Thursday night, after destroying a fifth tunnel earlier in the afternoon.

Gaza City  - Israel carried out a fresh airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, the second air attack in some 12 hours, killing two Palestinians, health officials said.

Gaza emergency services chief Mo'aweya Hassanein said an Israeli pilotless drone fired one missile at a group of Palestinians east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel.

There were no other injuries, said Hassanein, who could not say whether the two fatalities were militants or civilians. Witnesses said they were militants, however.

Gaza City  - Israeli fighter jets fired a missile on a car driving in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding five others, health officials and witnesses said.

The armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement identified the dead as two of its militants.

The airstrike near the refugee camp of Jabalia came after ongoing rockets attacks from Gaza at southern Israel, despite a ferocious and deadly 22-day Israeli offensive which ended in mid-January and aimed to curb such attacks.

Gaza City  - The de-facto government of the radical Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza condemned the International Criminal Court Wednesday for ordering the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

The Hague court issued a warrant against al-Bashir over atrocities committed in Sudan's western Darfur province.

Hamas' government spokesman Taher al-Noono in a written statement sent to reporters called the decision "unjust."