Medical sources said the dead men were fishermen Ashraf Qatayfan, 29, Jihad Khalef, 21, and Talat al-Ruwagh, 25. The missile came from an Israeli warship in the early hours of the morning and killed all three immediately. The bodies were taken to Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya.
The bodies were “heavily deformed” from the strike, said medical sources. One eyewitness said an Israeli warplane had also taken part in the attack, while some sources told Reuters that Israeli gunfire caused the deaths.
According to Reuters, no Gaza militant group had yet claimed the slain men as members. Witnesses told Reuters that they had heard gunfire overnight.
The Israeli army released a statement saying that the strike was in response to five rockets that had been fired from Gaza toward towns in southern Israel...
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