NNA - An Israeli air strike wounded two Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical and security sources said.



"Two Palestinians were hit and injured by an Israeli drone while they were riding on a motorbike east of Khan Yunis," Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France Presse.



Palestinian security sources described the two as "militants, without saying to which group they belonged.



The Israeli army confirmed the strike in a statement, saying it had "intercepted terrorists during their final preparations to launch rockets towards Israel.


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