Israeli strike kills 2 suspected militants in Gaza

Two suspected militants were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their vehicle near a crowded public park in Gaza City on Thursday, a Palestinian health official said. The Israeli military confirmed it carried out an airstrike and said it targeted two militants who were planning to infiltrate Israel. It said one of them was involved in a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli city of Eilat five years ago that killed three Israeli civilians. The identity of the other dead man was not immediately known. The airstrike set off an explosion that turned the car into a ball of fire. Onlookers arriving moments later saw the body of a man sprawled near the vehicle with much of his head missing. A dismembered leg and hand of a second person lay on the ground nearby.

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