Hamas is committed to ceasefire: official

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Wednesday that it is still committed to a ceasefire after an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, told reporters that despite the truce, it is the Palestinian people's right to respond to the ongoing Israeli military aggression against them.

"The commitment will never prevent us from retaliation," said Abu Zuhri.

Meanwhile, spokesman of Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas armed wing, Abu Oaida, told reporters that Israel should bear all consequences of the airstrike.

Two Palestinian militants were killed when one missile fired by an Israeli plane hit their car outside the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip.

One of the killed was identified as a senior member of the Al- Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed offshoot of the mainstream Fatah movement, and the other belonged to Hamas.

At predawn on Wednesday, a group calling itself the Popular Resistance Committees, a Hamas armed wing, said its militants fired two homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at southern Israel, killing one Israeli soldier in the village of Kherbet Marka near the West Bank city of Jenin.

"The attack was in response to the Israeli assassination of two Palestinian militants," the group said in a leaflet.

An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that Yonathan Ivron, 20, was killed in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants near Jenin.

Source: Xinhua