Four Palestinians, including two members of Islamic Jihad faction, were killed Monday in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City, witnesses and Palestinian security sources said.
The two Jihad activist, whose names were not immediately known, were travelling in the car when it exploded into a ball of flames.
The other two victims were a woman and child on the road, the sources said. Seven other bystanders, most of them children, were also wounded in the explosion, medical sources said.
At least one rocket was fired from an Israeli aircraft into the car as it drove down Salaheddin Street in the Gaza City centre, witnesses and security sources said. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed that the military carried out an air strike targeting a wanted militant from Islamic Jihad.
"A short while ago the IDF carried out an aerial attack in Gaza City against a vehicle carrying an Islamic Jihad terrorist," she told AFP. Monday's deaths bring to 4,975 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in 2000. Over three-quarters of the victims have been Palestinian.
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