2 Islamic Jihad militants killed in Gaza blast

Two Islamic Jihad militants were killed and two others wounded on Saturday in an internal explosion in training compound that belong to the militant group of Islamic Jihad in southern Gaza, local medics said. Ashraf al-Qaida, chief of emergency services in the Hamas-run ministry of health in the Gaza Strip, told reporters that two were killed and two wounded in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad meanwhile said in an emailed press statement that two of its militants were killed and two others wounded during training in a military facility near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Earlier overnight, unknown militants fired a homemade rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel. No one claimed responsibility and there were no damages or injuries. Medical sources also said that Israeli soldiers stationed near the borders between Gaza Strip and Israel opened fire at Palestinian farmers east of the central Gaza Strip town of Deir el- Ballah and wounded one of them. Israel and the Gaza Strip militants had reached a ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt in 2012 at the end of an eight-day Israeli aerial operation. source: XINHUA