2010 Gaza airstrike

According to the Israel Defence Forces and Palestinian medical officials, three members of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Palestinian medics have also said that two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip were killed by gunfire from Israel on Saturday, according to security sources and Palestinian officials.
According to witness reports, the men were collecting scrap metal when they were killed near the border; Israeli officials, however, said that the men were trying to shoot rockets into Israel. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that the army had nothing to do with the shooting.
The head of Gaza's emergency and ambulance services, Mo'aweya Hassanein, said to media that ambulances were dispatched to the area, but were still waiting for permission from Israeli authorities to reach the scene.
On Sunday, the IDF said in a statement that an Israeli Air Force craft attacked a terror cell preparing to fire projectiles from the southern Gaza Strip into Israel on Sunday evening. It claimed that the Israeli Air Force, working in cooperation with Shin Bet, had identified and targeted three fighters, including a top commander, as they prepared to fire, and scored a direct hit. Earlier that day, Israel said that militants had fired four mortars at Israel, all of which landed in Palestinian territory.
Palestinian medics and the IDF say Sunday's air strike killed three members of the Islamic Jihad group in central Gaza.

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