BEIJING, May 1 -- An Israeli aircraft has hit a metal workshop in southern Gaza, one person is dead and three others are wounded.

    The workshop is in Rafah, a town next to the Egyptian border. A witness says three Israeli helicopters hovered over the target area and were fired at by Palestinians before the strike. But the Israeli military says no aircraft were hit.

    Israel's military has confirmed the strike and says the target was a weapons manufacturing facility. Metal workshops are allegedly often used by militants to make rockets.

    (Source: CCTV.com)