Two Palestinian militants were killed and another critically wounded when an Israeli drone fired a missile at a group of militants east of the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Sunday afternoon, medics and security sources said.

The attack came after a group of militants of Islamic Jihad( Holy War) escaped an Israeli raid on their car in Beit Hanoun on Sunday, while a group of militants survived an airstrike near the cemetery of Beit Hanoun.

About 40 Israeli army tanks, armored personnel carriers rolled overnight into eastern and northern Beit Hanoun amid intensive gunfire.

Three Palestinian militants were killed and eleven civilians were injured in shootout.

Elsewhere, a Palestinian farmer lost his arm when an Israeli artillery shell landed on his farm in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia.

Source: Xinhua