An Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile that blew apart a car carrying members of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza City today, killing a bodyguard of the militantgroup’s leader and a 12-year-old boy, witnesses and doctors said.

A vehicle was blown apart in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City today, critically wounding the bodyguard of an Islamic Jihad leader and killing a 12-year-old boy, witnesses and doctors said.