Seven Palestinians were killed and ten wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday afternoon in the northern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian security sources said that an Israeli pilotless drone fired one missile at a group of Palestinians militants in al- Essra neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahia.

Palestinian medics at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza City said that seven Palestinians were killed and ten were wounded, three of them in critical conditions.

Meanwhile, two Palestinians, including a militant and a bystander, were killed in shootout between Palestinian militants and Israeli soldiers north of the town, security sources said.

Source: Xinhua