Two militants were killed overnight Sunday as Israeli forces targeted the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the coastal enclave to 12 since Saturday, Maan reported.
Palestinian medical sources identified the victims as Yousif Rawhi Mahmoud Abu Abdu and Ali Abdullah al-Aqad, both from Khan Younis, south Gaza.
Both victims were transferred to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.
The al-Ansar brigades, a military wing of the al-Ahrar movement, said in a statement that the victims were fighters in the group. They vowed to retaliate for the deaths.
The Israeli army released a statement just after midnight on Sunday, confirming a direct hit on the Gaza Strip, reportedly to target a militant group who had fired projectiles at Israel.
There have been no new reports of violence since the overnight Israeli airstrike, with an Egyptian brokered truce seemingly holding.
A truce secured through Egyptian mediation early on Sunday failed to end cross border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, as projectiles were fired from Gaza and Israeli launched an airstrike on the strip in the afternoon, killing a DFLP fighter.
The Islamic Jihad movement confirmed earlier on Sunday that it would abide by truce efforts.
"Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it," an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed nine fighters from Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday, and Gaza militants fired a volley of rockets and mortars into southern Israel, killing one Israeli in Ashkelon.
The recent flareup in violence is the worst since August, when clashes in and around the Gaza Strip killed 27 Palestinians and an Israeli.
The confrontations erupted when Israel launched airstrikes on the coastal enclave after blaming a militant group for an attack in Israel which killed eight people.
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