By Prensa Latina,
Gaza : At least seven Palestinians were killed and another eight were wounded in air raids carried out Sunday by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
Both Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed that four members of Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades, the armed Branch of the Islamic Resistance (Hamas), were hit by several air-to-earth missiles in Jabaliya.
Another Hamas militant was killed in Beit Lahiya, while a third attack claimed the lives of two Hamas militants and left six wounded in eastern and northern Gaza.
The air attacks began just hours after militants detonated two booby-trapped vehicles disguised as Israeli military jeeps at the Kerem Shalom border crossing used to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza, whose economy is crippled by an Israeli blockade.
Thirteen Israeli soldiers were wounded in Saturday’s attack, which Israeli Major General Yoav Galant described as the “most ambitious launched against our troops” since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.