Militants retaliate for Gaza killing

THE militant Islamic Jihad group in Gaza fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel early yesterday after Israeli undercover forces killed one of its West Bank leaders.

The Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Shehadeh was buried yesterday in Bethlehem along with three other gunmen killed in the raid on Wednesday.

The bodies of Shehadeh and another militant were wrapped in Hezbollah flags, and dozens of mourners chanted support for the Lebanese guerrilla group.