Israeli airstrike kills three

An Israeli airstrike targeted a group of Palestinians after they tried to fire home-made rockets into Israel, killing three militants, hospital officials said.

An Israeli missile struck a car carrying the militants as they sped away from the launch site in northern Gaza.

The men were identified as members of the Popular Resistance Committees, a small militant group that frequently fires rockets into Israel. The group’s leader, Jamal Abu Samhadana, was killed in an Israeli airstrike late yesterday.

In an earlier airstrike, the army said it attacked a separate group of men attempting to fire rockets in northern Gaza. One member of the PRC was slightly wounded, Palestinian officials said.