An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a car believed to be carrying a senior Islamic militant in the Gaza Strip tonight, killing four people, witnesses said.

A VIDEO of an Israeli missile strike in a Gaza refugee camp shows people running in a nearby alley, and the army said yesterday it is investigating whether this could explain the high number of casualties reported by the Palestinians.

Israeli troops shot and killed two suspected Palestinian militants in the West Bank today, a day after Palestinians in Gaza buried seven people killed in a deadly air attack.

THE flag-wrapped bodies of seven Palestinians killed in an Israeli missile strike were carried through the shantytown of Nusseirat in the Gaza Strip yesterday, with tens of thousands of mourners clamouring for revenge.

YASSER ARAFAT and leaders of his Fatah movement met yesterday to choose ministers in the new Palestinian government, and he reported progress in truce talks with Islamic militant groups.

An Israeli helicopter fired four missiles at a van, killing two members of the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip today and wounding two people, witnesses and rescue workers said.

Israeli tanks moved into the Nusseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip early today, witnesses said, killing seven people and destroying two houses.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday praised an Israeli army strike in the Gaza Strip that killed 14 Palestinians and wounded more than 100.

Four Hamas supporters were killed in clashes with Palestinian police in Gaza, during internal strife that came just hours after an Israeli helicopter fired a missile that exploded on a crowded Gaza street, killing and wounding dozens.