Islamic Jihad militant killed in Gaza by Israeli air strike

GAZA CITY (AFP) - A militant from Islamic Jihad was killed and two others from the radical Palstinian movement were wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
 
The dead man was a local official from the armed wing of the Islamist movement, the sources said.

The Israeli army confirmed it had carried out the raid.

Three air-to-ground missiles were fired at armed men in a vehicle at Rafah by the Egyptian border, witnesses said.

Two people in a second car were also injured, the witnesses added.
After the air strike, Palestinian militants fired rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderot, but without causing injuries, an Israeli military source said.

Saturday's air strike takes the number of people killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2000 to 5,804, according to an AFP toll. The vast majority of those killed were Palestinians.