GAZA, Aug. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and eight others injured late Tuesday in northern Gaza Strip when a homemade rocket launched by militants mistakenly hit a Palestinian house, medics and security sources reported.

    The sources said that militants from al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad (holy war) movement, fired a homemade rocket at the southern Israeli town of Sderout from  Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza Strip, but the rocket fell on a Palestinian house in the area.

    Palestinian medics at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza City reported that Yasser al-Ashqar was killed and eight others were injured, three of them in critical conditions.

    The security sources reported that the house belongs to Adnan al-Ashqar, a Palestinian resident of Beit Hanoon, and the boy killed is his son, five of his family were injured.

    Three children of Hisham Abdel-Razeq, former Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs were also wounded, one of them in critical conditions.

    The Palestinian ministry of interior issued a statement condemning the attack and warned the militants against firing
homemade rockets, adding that more than 90 percent of those rockets hit Palestinian houses and properties.  Enditem