GAZA, March 19 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant group said. The two militants were from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was checking the report although she was not aware of any military activity in the area of the central Gaza Strip, close to the border fence with Israel. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
A Palestinian rides a scooter past empty cooking gas canisters outside a gas station in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip March 18, 2009. Israel vowed on Tuesday to keep its ...
