Two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli Apache helicopter fired a missile at a group of militants in the southeastern Gaza Strip on Thursday.

An Islamic Jihad (Holy War) spokesman said that two militants of the group were killed while launching attack on an Israeli armored vehicle in the village of Abbassan, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.

An initial report put the death toll at four in the airstrike, but sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed that two were killed and seven wounded, two of them were in critical conditions.

Source: Xinhua