Israeli missile strikes kill two

An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of gunmen in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza after nightfall last night, killing one and wounding seven, in the second air strike of the day as a large-scale military operation continued.

Palestinian security officials said the target of the missile strike was a group of gunmen organising to attack Israeli forces and identified the dead man as a 20-year-old activist of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.