An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (march 11), according to the Islamic Jihad group.
The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted Islamic Jihad members after they had fired a mortar bomb at troops.
"Direct hits were confirmed," the army said.
"Terrorists must know that there is a price to pay when participating in aggression," said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman.
Islamic Jihad said its men were responding to Israeli soldiers who had entered the Gaza Strip through Israel's border fence.
Earlier in the day, the territory's ruling Hamas Islamist movement said an Israeli drone had crashed on the Gaza side of the frontier. The Israeli army said the drone came down because of a technical malfunction.
Hamas militants said they recovered the aircraft in southern Gaza and handed it over to security forces. The Israeli army did not say whether the drone could reveal information in technology secrets in the hands of Hamas.
Reuters reports, "Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, but maintains a naval and air blockade of the enclave and severely restricts the overland movement of people and goods across the volatile border."
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