At least one person has died and several people were injured, including children, after an Israeli aircraft fired at two men in the southern Gaza strip, Palestinian hospital officials said on Sunday.

According to the Israeli army, the two men were involved in rocket attacks into Israel.

The two men were riding a motorcycle near the town of Rafah, which borders Egypt's Sinai peninsula, when the attack occurred.

One of them and a bystander were in a critical condition, the officials said.

A number of bystanders were injured included three children, a woman and an elderly man.

Palestinian medical sources told the AFP news agency that Talat Halil Jarbi had lost both legs in Sunday's air strike.

Israel and Hamas, which governs Gaza, have mostly observed an unwritten truce since Israel attacked the Gaza strip, where the Israeli military offensive named Operation Cast Lead killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, majority of them civilians, including 400 children.

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A wounded Palestinian boy speaks on the phone with his family following an Israeli air strike in Rafah camp in the southern Gaza Strip October 7, 2012.

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