Gaza- At least one Palestinian militant was killed and three wounded, one of them critically, Saturday after an Israeli air force plane fired a missile at their car in Gaza City, paramedics and witnesses said. The incident happened in the Zeitoon neighbourhood of southern Gaza City. Paramedics said that two bystanders were also wounded. | Palestinian security sources said that the four in the car were members of a group which fired homemade rockets into Israel. |
Israel has escalated military action in the Gaza Strip over the past three days, leaving more than 20 Palestinians dead, many of them civilian bystanders. The Israeli escalation follows an increased number of rockets fired at southern Israeli communities. Predawn Saturday Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a group of Palestinian militants east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, killing six people and wounding nine, witnesses and medics said.