Top Hamas rocket-maker killed in air strike
Two Palestinian militants from Hamas, including a relative of the Palestinian foreign minister, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City at nightfall today, witnesses and doctors said.
Another Hamas militant in the car was wounded, they said.
Hamas said one of the dead was Ahmed Awad, the chief Hamas rocket maker, who was the son-in-law of Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas.
The Israeli military said the target was a car carrying the militant in charge of making Hamas rockets.
Israel has been trying to stop daily barrages of rocket fire from Gaza at Israeli towns.
The airstrike came hours after Israeli shells hit a residential neighbourhood in northern Gaza, killing at least 18 people.
