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Relatives of a man killed by an Israeli airstrike mourn during his funeral Tuesday in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. Israel said the man, Hithem Masshal, was a "key terror figure."

TEL AVIV, Israel -- An Israeli air strike killed a "key terror figure" responsible for firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday.

Also on Tuesday, a Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, police said.

It was the first time an Israeli had been killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011, according to Reuters.  

The Israeli strike on Gaza, which is ruled by Islamist militant group Hamas, appeared to be the first such attack since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.

It came just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a military response to rocket fire into Israel from the strip.

"The terrorist that was targeted is Hithem Ziad Ibrahim Masshal, 24 years old, a resident of Shati Refugee Camp," the IDF said in a statement.  

"Mashhal acted in different Jihad Salafi terror organizations and over the past few years has been a key terror figure, specializing in weapons and working with all of the terror organizations in the Gaza Strip," it added.

Masshal made, modified and traded in ammunition, specializing in rockets and explosive devices, according to the IDF. 

A spokesman for Itzhar settlement named the slain man as Eviatar Borovsky, a 31-year-old father of five. Border policemen shot and wounded Borovsky's attacker.

The violence ended a period of relative calm in the region, and came after Arab states appeared to soften their stance on Israel's borders at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Kurds carry the coffins of victims of a Turkish air raid, outside Uludere Hospital in Uludere, Sirnak province, on Dec. 30. The weeping mourners accompanied the coffins to the cemetery in Gulyazi village, near the Iraqi border, from the nearby town of Uludere where a service was held at the mosque.

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Women mourn for victims of a Turkish air raid, at the cemetery of Gulyazi Village, Sirnak province, near the Iraqi border, on Dec. 30. Thousands of Kurds buried 35 civilians killed in a Turkish air raid and branded Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a murderer.

 AP reports:

Thousands of mourners gathered in southeast Turkey on Friday for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq.

Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984. Continue reading...