RAMALLAH, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Palestine on Tuesday slammed Israeli killing of senior Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip Baha Abu al-Atta and his wife during a predawn attack.
In a brief press statement, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said he held Israel "fully responsible for the consequences of this crime."
Meanwhile, government spokesperson Ibrahim Milhem said in a press statement that "Israel was committing crimes through assassinating people in the Gaza Strip in order to draw it to a new war."
Milhem said what Israel was plotting against Gaza may have grave consequences, urging the international community to intervene with providing protection for the Palestinian people.
Baha Abu al-Atta, a senior militant and leader of al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, and his wife were killed earlier Tuesday in an Israeli aerial attack on their house in eastern Gaza city.
The health authorities in Gaza said in an emailed press statement that two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and two other pedestrians were wounded in an Israeli attack, which hit a house in east of Gaza city.
