Airstrike kills bodyguard of Islamic Jihad leader

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.

Also today, four Palestinians were charged in a Palestinian military court with planting explosives that may have killed three Americans travelling in a diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip in October.