GAZA, Dec. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- One Palestinian was killed and eight wounded in an Israeli air strike Wednesday night in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian security sources and medics said.

    An Israeli army reconnaissance drone fired two missiles at a car driving in one Rafah town street, said witnesses, adding that four militants were inside the car, which was totally destroyed.

    The killed one was identified as Mahmoud al-Argan, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a small violent militant group, security sources said.

    Residents, rescue teams and firefighters arrived at the scene and took the wounded to hospitals in Rafah and the nearby city Khan Younis.

    The air strike came two days after a Palestinian suicide bomber from the Islamic Jihad (Holy War), another radical militant group sworn to Israel's destruction, killed five Israelis and wounded over 50 others in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya.

    Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered the army to take harsh measures to strike back, including the resumption of targeted killings of Palestinian militants. Enditem