Three Palestinians were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a group of militants who were launching makeshift rockets from northern Gaza Strip at Israel, medics and witnesses said.
The witnesses in the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip said that an Israeli surface-to-surface rocket had directly hit a group of militants who were launching rockets at Israel.
They said that the Israeli strike was carried out shortly after two homemade rockets were fired from the area at southern Israel.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance service, said that three were killed in the Israeli strike in Beit Hanoun, adding that their bodies were evacuated to the hospital in the town. It was not clear whether the three are militants.
Earlier Saturday, the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for launching two rockets from northern Gaza at the Israeli town of Sderot.
Source: Xinhua
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