“Israeli” air strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza Strip

Source: Reuters, 04-8-2007
GAZA - An "Israeli" air strike on two vehicles killed two Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, ambulance crews and local residents said.
An "Israeli" army spokeswoman in Tel Aviv confirmed the military had carried out an attack in the area. She gave no details.
Ambulance crews and residents in the town of Rafah, near Gaza's border with Egypt, said missiles fired from an "Israeli" aircraft hit a car and a truck, killing two members of the Islamic Jihad group and wounding 15 other people.
Some residents said the truck appeared to have been disguised as an "Israeli" tank transporter and speculated militants might have been planning to use it as a decoy to approach and attack "Israel's" nearby Kerem Shalom border terminal.
Islamic Jihad has been behind numerous rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip against southern "Israel". Minutes after the air strikes, several rockets hit Sderot, an "Israeli" town near Gaza, causing no casualties.
The Gaza Strip is controlled by Hamas Islamists, who routed fighters from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in a brief civil war in June.