A six-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and eight others injured late Tuesday in northern Gaza Strip when a homemade rocket launched by militants missed target and hit a Palestinian house, medics and security sources reported.

The sources said that militants from al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad (holy war) movement, fired two homemade rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderout from Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza Strip, but one rocket fell on a Palestinian house in the area, the other landed at an empty area near Sderout.

Palestinian medics at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza City reported that Yasser al-Ashqar was killed and eight others were injured, three of them in critical conditions.

The security sources reported that the house belongs to Adnan al-Ashqar, a Palestinian resident of Beit Hanoon, and the boy killed is his son, four of his family were injured.

Four children of Hisham Abdel-Razeq, former Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs, were also wounded, one of them in critical conditions.

The Palestinian ministry of interior issued a statement condemning the attack, adding that more than 90 percent of homemade rockets misfired and hit Palestinian houses and properties.

Source: Xinhua