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Israeli fire wounds 4 in Gaza family -medics

(Adds details, Israeli military comment)

GAZA, April 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tank fire wounded four members of a Gaza family on Thursday, medics said, in an incident that ruptured the calm of a shaky truce achieved after a spasm of cross-border violence earlier this month.

Officials in the Hamas Islamist ruled coastal territory said Israeli forces had fired in the direction of a home in central Gaza after darkness fell.

Medics and witnesses said those wounded were a man and a woman and two children aged five and 10 from the same family, who were on the second floor of a building about 200 metres from a border zone with Israel.

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