A Palestinian boy stands outside a house that witnesses said was destroyed during an Israeli air strike in the northern of Gaza Strip
AFP/Gaza City
Israeli air strikes killed at least six Palestinians, four of them children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the spokesman for the emergency services said.
One strike targeted a group of people in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, killing a man and a 13-year-old boy, while a second hit Gaza City, killing four people, three of them children, he said.
The armed wing of Hamas said earlier in an announcement that three of its senior commanders were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip that medics said killed eight people.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in a statement identified the leaders as Mohammed Abu Shamala, Raed al-Atar and Mohammed Barhum.
Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said eight Palestinians were killed in the strike. Witnesses said the four-storey family home was completely destroyed in a series of air strikes.
