JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israelis were killed and another was injured on Sunday by a rocket attack in southern Israel.</p> <p>“A 40-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were killed by a direct rocket hit on a factory in Ashkelon city,” Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency agency, said in a statement.</p> <p>“Another, 50, was moderately wounded and transferred to the hospital for treatment,” it added.</p> <p>Palestinian resistance factions, meanwhile, announced in a joint statement Sunday that they had targeted Beersheba and Ashkelon with dozens of rockets "in response to the Israeli targeting of safe houses in the Gaza Strip."<br>
The resistance factions warned Israel against continuing “the policy of targeting and bombing safe houses, ” vowing retaliation.
Since Saturday, nine Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her infant child, have been martyred and nearly 50 wounded by Israeli air strikes.
