A Palestinian died this morning when two Israeli helicopters fired rockets at a car near the town of Khan Yunisin in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said.
The dead man was Nidal Salamah (33) thought to be a militant leader linked to the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
At least seven other people were injured in the strike, in which two rockets were fired by two Apache helicopters, the Palestinian official said. One of them, the driver of a donkey cart behind the targeted car, was seriously hurt.
Earlier today in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, two militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, were killed by Israeli tank fire, Palestinian sources said.
Israeli tanks surrounded the home of one of the men in the village of al-Khader and shelled it, killing both men.
AFP