Four Palestinians were wounded on Monday in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed a car driving in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Palestinian security sources and medics said.

Denying an earlier report saying that one Palestinian was killed in the attack, Palestinian medics at Nasser Hospital said that four were wounded including a bystander.

However, Abu Hamza, spokesman of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) armed wing Saraya al-Quds, told Xinhua on telephone that one of his group's militants was killed and two others were wounded.

The three militants, members of Saraya al-Quds who were on their way to launch homemade rockets at southern Israel, were in the car when the it was hit, said the sources.

Monday's airstrike targeting militants in the Gaza Strip came one day after seven Palestinians were killed in a military operation by Israeli army in Jenin in the West Bank.

Two of the killed were Islamic Jihad members and two were members of the Popular Resistance Committees.

Both of the groups have been involved in suicide bombing attacks and rocket firing against Israel.

Source: Xinhua