Israeli warplanes killed three Islamic Jihad gunmen in an air strike on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the military would respond harshly to rocket and mortar fire from Gaza. The aircraft targeted a group of Palestinian militants in the central Gaza Strip, killing the three with an air-to-ground missile, Palestinian medics said. The Israeli military said the ...

Israeli warplanes killed three Islamic Jihad gunmen on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the military would use maximum force to counter attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza. The aircraft targeted a group of militants in the central Gaza Strip, killing the three with air-to-ground missiles, Palestinian medics said. The Israeli military said they targeted the group "as they ...

GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian armed group accused the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Saturday of preventing its men from firing rockets at Israel, a sensitive allegation for the Islamist faction as it pursues mediated deals with the Jewish state. Hamas police intercepted Islamic Jihad rocket crews on three occasions over the past month, a group official said, foiling their ...