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Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian militant

28 October 2012 03:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A Palestinian militant was killed and another wounded early on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike in northeast Gaza Strip, medical sources said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A second militant was critically wounded, said Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesperson for the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Security sources said the militants were members of the Islamic Hamas movement.

The airstrike came barely three days after a shaky ceasefire between Israel and militant groups in Gaza took effect. Egypt brokered the unofficial lull deal.

Witnesses said escalation resumed after several Israeli tanks and bulldozers got through a security fence that serves as a borderline between Gaza and Israel to the east of Khan Younis, a southern Gaza Strip city.

Palestinian militants fired four mortar shells toward the advancing Israeli army vehicles, and a drone hovering overhead struck the militants with at least one missile, causing the casualties, witnesses said.

The last wave of cross-border violence, which stopped Wednesday evening, claimed the lives of four Palestinian militants.