Israel accelerated its deadly campaign against militants Tuesday, killing a water-pipe vendor in a botched missile strike against Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip that also wounded 26 bystanders. Three Hamas members managed to flee their car in a crowded Gaza City street before the missiles hit, witnesses said. Five children were among the wounded, doctors said. Israel has killed seven militants in two missile raids in Gaza and stepped up military operations in the West Bank since 21 people died in a Hamas suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus last week. Hours before the Gaza Strike, Israeli soldiers dressed as Arabs snatched two wounded militants, one involved in a suicide bombing, from their beds in a West Bank hospital.

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