A member from Islamic Jihad died and two others from the Palestinian movement were injured in an Israeli air strike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said on Saturday.
The dead man was a local official from the armed wing of the Islamist movement, the sources said, according to AFP. The Israeli army confirmed it had carried out the raid.
Three air-to-ground missiles were fired at armed men in a vehicle at Rafah by the Egyptian border, witnesses said. Two people in a second car were also hurt, the witnesses added.
After the air strike, Palestinian gunners fired rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderot, but without causing injuries, an Israeli military source said.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources confirmed on Saturday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Monday in the West Bank city of Jericho. The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported that the meeting, which it said was slated for Sunday, would tackle the framework for a future Palestinian state.
The meeting will address final status issues in an attempt to make progress ahead of a Mideast peace conference announced last month by U.S. President George W. Bush , Top PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo said.
