By IANS
Gaza: Two militants, members of the Hamas movement, were killed Sunday in Israeli artillery shelling on east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, medics and witnesses said.
Gaza emergency chief Mo’aweya Hassanein told reporters that two Palestinians were brought dead to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as a result of being hit by an Israeli artillery shell.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas movement’s armed wing, said the two were its members.
Witnesses said Israeli soldiers stationed on the border between eastern town of Jabalia and Israel fired two tank shells at a group of Palestinians, killing the two men.
The Israeli shelling came after militants earlier Sunday fired two homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip into Israel. Israeli radio reported that the two shells landed in an empty area causing no injuries or damage.
Hamas has accepted an unwritten and an undeclared ceasefire with Israel since the end of the 22-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that ended in Jan 18, leaving around 1,450 Palestinians dead.