Three killed in Israeli air strike: Palestinians

Gaza, May 20: A missile fired from an Israeli aircraft hit a car in the Gaza Strip before dawn today, killing three people, local residents and medical staff said.

An Israeli army spokesman confirmed a strike had taken place on a vehicle belonging to Hamas militants and said the size of the explosion confirmed the vehicle was full of munitions.

Residents said that a second air strike aimed at a metal workshop in the northern part of the coastal territory destroyed the target and that nobody was injured.

The army spokesman confirmed the second strike was on a metal workshop in the town of Beit Lahiya.

The two latest air strikes follow a series of attacks from Israeli aircraft which began on Wednesday.

Four Palestinians were killed in air strikes yesterday.

Which came on a day when more than a dozen rockets were fired into Israel by Palestinian militants.

Nobody was hurt in Israel by the missiles, although they caused some damage in towns bordering the Gaza Strip.

REUTERS

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