Israeli air strike kills Hamas man in Gaza


  • World
  • Thursday, 19 Jul 2018

Relatives of a Palestinian Hamas member, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, react at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip July 19, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip killed a member of the Islamist group Hamas on Thursday and wounded three others, Hamas sources and medical officials said.

The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out a strike targeting Hamas militants who were about to launch balloons rigged with flammable material over the border into Israel.

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