A Zionist air strike on Tuesday killed three Palestinian fighters of "Al Quds Brigades", the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, in the Gaza Strip, the group said this afternoon.

A Zionist air strike on Tuesday killed three Palestinian fighters of "Al Quds Brigades", the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, in the Gaza Strip, the group said this afternoon.

The group stated the Zionist shelling targeted members of the group in Rafah, a town bordering Egypt, near the Sufa crossing east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Al-Manar Website correspondent reported that the Zionist bombing targeted a group of resistance fighters while they were fighting off the occupation forces penetrating in the region.

Palestinian Ministry of Health spokesman spokesman in Gaza, dr. Ashraf al-Qodra, identified the three martyrs as Ismail Abdul-Hamid Abu-Joudeh, 23, Abdul Shafi Saleh Mahmoud Abu Moammar, 33 and Shaher Hamouda Mahmoud Abu Shanab, 24.