Three Palestinians killed in Israeli air raid in Gaza Strip

Three Hamas militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their car that drove in northern Gaza Strip Friday morning, Palestinian security sources and medics said.

The sources said that three Hamas militants, members of al- Qassam Brigades, were in a car that drove near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahya, and one rocket was suddenly fired at the car and hit it directly.

Ambulances arrived at the scene and moved bodies of the militants to Kamal Odwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Friday that it launched an air raid targeting a vehicle driven by Hamas members in northern Gaza, killing a local Hamas commander and two Hamas militants.

The IDF claimed that the three were involved in a Qassam rocket attack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot Thursday evening.

On Thursday night, a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Sderot, which caused no injuries but damaged the city's electricity grid and put part of the town into darkness.

In another development on Friday, a 29-year-old Palestinian woman was killed by Israeli troops' gunfire east of Abbassan village in southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said.

Witnesses said that Zuhra Qudeih was shot in the head and immediately died as an Israeli army force was operating in al- Faraheen neighborhood.

On Thursday, the Israeli army stormed northern and southern Gaza Strip and killed nine Palestinians, including a father and his two-year-old baby girl, and injured 16.

Source: Xinhua