Israeli warplanes have struck a car in Gaza City on Friday evening, killing three militants from Hamas' military wing, sources and paramedics said.

The Hamas-run al-Aqsa satellite channel said that the Israeli aircrafts have fired two rockets on a car traveling in Sheja'ya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, adding the dead were members of Hamas' rocket squad.

Mu'awia Hassanin, director of the Health Ministry's ambulance service, confirmed that three burnt bodies arrived to Shifa hospital in Gaza, adding five bystanders were injured, on of them seriously.

The death toll of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has rose to 39 since the aerial strikes started more than a week ago.

Earlier on Friday, Israeli F16 warplanes also dropped three bombs on a camp for Hamas' Executive Force in central Gaza Strip, moderately wounding three members of Hamas' police force, witnesses and hospital officials said.

The Friday strikes came after Hamas' military wing claimed responsibility for firing a barrage of home-made rockets into Sderot city in southern Israel.

A series of strikes last night and early in pre-dawn targeted a money exchange shop and a post used by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya's bodyguards in Gaza City. There were no word on casualties.

According to residents, Israeli Apache helicopters are still flying overhead in various parts of the Gaza Strip.

Source: Xinhua