Two Palestinians, including a Hamas militant and a Palestinian police officer, were killed early Thursday in two separate Israeli strikes on northern Gaza Strip, medics and security sources reported.

The security sources said that an Israeli reconnaissance drone fired one missile at a group of militants from al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of the governing Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), killing one of them.

Medics at Kamal Odwan Hospital confirmed that Osama Hejazi, a Palestinian militant was killed and his body was brought to the hospital in northern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian security sources, meanwhile said that an Israeli naval gunship fired one artillery shell at a Palestinian police post closed to the northern beach of the Gaza Strip, wounding at least eleven people.

Medics at the same hospital said that the emergency department of the hospital received 11 casualties, including three in critical conditions, adding that one of them called Rami Abu Hashem, a police officer, died of his wounds.

The two strikes were carried out as more Israeli forces incurred into the no-go security zone in northern Gaza Strip aiming at preventing Palestinian militants from launching homemade rockets at southern Israel.

Source: Xinhua