Israeli forces have launched air and land attacks on Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, killing two Palestinian fighters.

Five other Palestinians were injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Tuesday.

Israel Defense Forces troops killed a 64-year-old man in Jenin on Sunday, it was released for publication Monday. Palestinian sources said Monday that Sabri Khalil worked as a night watchman at a local school. After he shined his flashlight on a passing car, soldiers patrolling the city shot him in the chest, killing him.

Four Palestinian militants were killed early Monday in an Israel Air Force strike on central Gaza, Palestinian doctors said.

Later on Monday, Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead a civilian in the southern Gaza Strip, medics reported.

The four militants, two members of a Hamas-led security force and two presidential guards, were standing on a street in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City when a missile hit them, witnesses said. The four were severely burned and killed, Palestinian doctors said.

"Palestinians are driven to call for this boycott after 40 years of the occupation of their land, destruction of their homes and the kidnapping and murder of their civilians," said Loach in a statement. "It is impossible to ignore the appeals of Palestinian comrades," he concluded, adding, "I would decline any invitation to the Haifa Film Festival or other such occasions."

Palestinian child killed by IDF sniper bullet to the head

IAF air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed three Palestinians and wounded two television cameramen, while a fourth Palestinian was killed and a 6-year-old boy critically wounded by Israeli sniper fire, Palestinian officials and residents said.

Also Sunday, IDF jeeps surrounded the house of Hamas parliament member Mahmoud Musleh in Ramallah, and soldiers entered and arrested him, Musleh's daughter and Palestinian security officials said. The army confirmed the arrest.

The first Gaza air strike, in the early hours, hit an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, moderately wounding five people, including the two cameramen, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

The IDF said that in the darkness, no press markings were seen on the vehicle. The army said the car was moving in a suspicious manner near troops inside a combat zone.

A Hamas militant was killed in another air raid, hospital officials said.

On Sunday afternoon, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot in the head by a sniper in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, hospital officials said.

A 6-year-old boy was shot in the chest and critically wounded in the same area later Sunday outside his home, Palestinian medical officials said. The army was investigating the report.

The violence came as Israeli soldiers - backed by two dozen tanks, two bulldozers, helicopters and unmanned aerial drones - combed an area just inside the Gaza Strip in what the army said was a search for terror infrastructure, particularly tunnels.

An Israeli army force invaded the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday morning and opened fired at residents' houses. Soldiers took no prisoners but residents said that these invasions are taking place on daily basis and that most of the time, these attacks end by several reisdents taken prisoners or injured.

Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one child died after an explosive left by the army detonated near him. Also, one resident died by Israeli military fire in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that Mohammad Khaled Al Za'aneen, 15, died after an explosive left by the army during a recent invasion went off near him. His brother Bilal, 13, was seriously injured.

In a separate incident, one youth from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, was shot and killed by Israeli military fire Monday at noon.