Gaza City - An explosion in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia killed a Palestinian man and wounded five others, hospital officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday.

The cause of the explosion in the al-Atatrah neighbourhood was not immediately clear. Some residents said it was caused by an Israeli tank shell, while other reports said it was a "work accident," a euphemism for an accidental blast caused by militants handling explosives.

Hospital officials identified the dead man as Rajab Sabbah. They said three of the wounded were in critical condition.

An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv denied any army activity in the area.

Tel Aviv  - Palestinian militants fired two Gaza-made rockets at southern Israel Monday, an Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said.

One of the rockets landed near a kibbutz (agricultural commune), while the second had yet to be tracked down.

Another rocket was also fired at the area late Sunday.

Cairo  - Hamas official Mohamed Nasr said on Saturday the militant group had no time frame for reaching a truce with Israel.

"A truce could be announced after an hour or after tomorrow," Nasr told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa in a phone interview.

Earlier reports from Egypt stated that a truce could be reached on Saturday. Nasr, who is part of a Hamas delegation in Egypt, said his group would not link any truce to the fate of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in 2007.

Tel Aviv/Gaza  - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Saturday that his government will not agree to any ceasefire arrangement with the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip unless captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is freed.

With the two sides appearing further apart on Saturday than in recent days, Hamas also accused Israel of rejecting any truce that had a time limit, as the Islamist organization that rules the Gaza Strip had previously offered.

Gaza  - Six people were wounded after Israeli F16 planes hit two targets near the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and doctors said.

Jabalia residents said Israeli aircraft fired two missiles east of the camp.

Earlier Friday, Israeli planes carried out three airstrikes on the border area between the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and Egypt, targeting underground tunnels used for smuggling.

Washington  - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she plans to attend an international donors conference in Egypt next month to help rebuild the Gaza Strip following Israeli's military assault in the tiny enclave.

During a speech at the Asia Society in New York Clinton said that she will participate in the March 2 conference, one day after meeting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit in Washington.