Medics: New airstrike kills 2 in southern Gaza - total now 14 dead since Friday

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[update 16:00 10 March 2012 - three have now died after an attack in Rafah kills a member of the PRC - more]

GAZA CITY (Ma'an)-- Medical officials say an airstrike Saturday killed two men in the southern Gaza Strip, raising to 14 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel assassinated a military leader 24 hours earlier.

The latest attack east of Khan Younis came from a drone which fired on a motorcycle, said Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya.

The body of Hussein Barham Al-Breim, 51, was transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Abu Salmiya said. Mansour Kamal Abu Nuseira, 20, was taken to European Hospital, where he later died. more

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