Two Children Among Dead in Israeli Strike

chron: Israeli aircraft on Monday blew up a truck carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing two of them and three bystanders, including two children, Palestinian doctors said.

Seven people were wounded, doctors said.

The Israeli military confirmed it attacked the truck, saying the target was one of the dead men, Islamic Jihad operative Moner Sukar, who had carried out rocket attacks against Israel.

An Islamic Jihad spokesman, who gave his name as Abu Dajana, vowed revenge.

"God willing we are going to get revenge for the honorable blood shed today," Abu Dajana told reporters outside a morgue at the Shifa hospital in Gaza.

Two passengers killed in the car were Islamic Jihad members, Abu Dajana said. He had originally said that three of those killed were group members.

Palestinian doctors said three bystanders, including two boys, 8 and 15, were also killed in the strike.

Witnesses said that Sukar was traveling in an ice cream truck, which Islamic Jihad said he took from his work in an ice cream production plant and used as cover to hide from Israel.

One lightly injured person, Amin Sarsour, said he was crossing the road when a missile struck the truck.

"Suddenly a missile hit a car traveling in front of us and a huge explosion went off and the car went up in flames," said Sarsour, a resident of the area.

An angry mob gathered outside the morgue, shooting in the air and shouting "Death to Israel."

The car was traveling when the explosion went off, witnesses said. Link

db: The difference between this and the work of a 'suicide bomber'? The perpetrator of this atrocity didn't give up his life and will be available for fresh crimes in the morning. We say 'no' to suicide bombers and 'no' to cowardly and reckless acts like these.