Thousands of Palestinian mourners buried on Tuesday five Palestinians, including three children, who were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike on two Islamic Jihad militants' car in eastern Gaza City.

The mourners carried the five shrouds rapped with Palestinian flags and Islamic Jihad flags on their shoulders amid shouts of revenge from Israel, while militants from different armed groups who were in the funeral fired in the air.

The huge funeral moved from Shiffa Hospital in Gaza City where the mourners brought the five bodies and walked in Gaza main streets heading to the victims' homes where their families would farewell the bodies.

An Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at Palestinian militants' Peugeot car in the Shejaya neighborhood southeast Gaza City, killing five people including Munir Suqar, local commander of the Jihad's armed wing Saraya al-Quds, and Jihad militant Ashraf Shaluf.

Two bystander brothers, eight-year-old Raed al-Batch and 15- year-old Mahmoud Al-Batash, and Ahmed Sousi, 17, who were nearby when the missile hit the car, were also among the dead.

According to medics at the Shiffa hospital, eight other bystanders were wounded.

Israeli security officials said that the target of the attack was Suker, who is involved in bomb attacks against Israeli targets and in the firing homemade rockets at Israeli civilian targets.

Israel Radio quoted military sources as saying that Sukar was also involved in smuggling weapons back and forth between Gaza and Egyptian areas via Sinai in to launch attacks at Israel.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Israel will strike at anyone who attempts to harm the state of Israel.

Israeli news website, Ha'aretz, reported that Mofaz declared that Israel will lay its hands on everyone who acts against it, and particularly all those involved in planning or carrying out Qassam launches.

Source: Xinhua