Israeli Airstrike on Gaza Strip Kills 2 Palestinians - Gaza Health Ministry

GAZA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th September, 2018) An Israeli airstrike in the southern part of the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of two Palestinians, spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry Ashraf Kidra said on Tuesday.

On Monday, the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the IDF had carried out an airstrike in the south of Gaza, targeting people whom they had qualified as terrorists, as they had approached the border fence and had left a suspicious object there.

"The bodies of the two slain persons were brought to the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Yunis. The Palestinians died in an Israeli airstrike," Kidra said.

He did not specify whether or not the Palestinians were members of a militant group.

The long-existing tensions in the Gaza Strip have escalated since late March, when Palestinians launched weekly protest rallies at the border.