Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a car in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said it had launched an ‘aerial strike’, which targeted a vehicle carrying a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
Medical officials say a third person in the car has been critically injured.
Fatah meeting halted
Earlier, Israeli police broke up an 'illegal' electoral meeting held by the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction in a hotel in occupied east Jerusalem.
Earlier, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to delay parliamentary elections, planned for January 25th, if Israel barred residents in east Jerusalem from voting.
Israeli officials have said they do not want to be accused of giving the Palestinians a reason for further postponement to the long-delayed election.
The last parliamentary elections were held in 1996.
Policemen storm Gaza offices
Dozens of Palestinian policemen today stormed government offices in the town of Rafah in Gaza to protest over the failure of the Palestinian Authority to fight growing lawlessness in the enclave.
The policemen raided government offices, courthouses and the municipality building, smashing windows at the Interior Ministry building.
Witnesses said the police were armed but did not wear uniforms in protest at what they said was the Palestinian Authority's failure to give them the power to restore law and order in Gaza.
