9 Palestinians martyred in Gaza

9 Palestinians were martyred and more than 20 other people wounded in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and friday in four savage raids by the Zionist regime's militants, medics and witnesses said.

Zionist regime's military forces martyred 3 Palestinian activists in the West Bank city of al Khalil on Friday.

Three men -- two of them from the Islamic Jihad Movement and a third from the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas -- were martyred around the southern town of Khan Yunis. Six other Palestinians were also wounded.

Shortly afterwards, two Islamic Jihad members were martyred and two wounded in an air raid in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.

In another raid by the Zionist terrorists, which witnesses said was carried out by either helicopters or drones, killed an Islamic Jihad member and wounded two more south of Gaza city, medical sources said.

Islamic Jihad named the martyred man as Mohammed Abdullah, 40, a senior commander of its al-Quds brigades.