A Palestinian radio confirmed Monday that three militant groups had claimed responsibility for an earlier suicide bombing in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.

The three groups include the Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Brigades, or the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, and the previously unknown "Army of Believers".

The militant groups have initially claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least three people and wounded 15 others, said Al-Quds, local radio station broadcasting from Gaza City.

However, Dawood Shihab, spokesman of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza told reporters that his group had not officially claimed responsibility for the attack, but "welcomes any attack targets the occupation."

He added that this attack "is a message to those brothers who are fighting each other in Gaza, telling them instead of pointing the guns to each others chests, guns should be pointed at the occupation."

Earlier, media reports said that the Islamic Jihad and other two Palestinian militant groups have claims responsibility for suicide bombing in Israel's Eilat on Monday.

A suicide bombing occurred in Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Monday, killing at least three people, local media said.

Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a local bakery. There was no immediate claim of responsibility in the attack, the first Palestinian bombing in Israel since April.

"There is a mass so we don't know the exact number of death now, " a Magen David Adom spokeman told Xinhua, adding that it might be a terror attack.

Source: Xinhua