world news-Israeli missile kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza

Updated at: 1341 PST, Thursday, March 19, 2009

GAZA: An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant group said. The two militants were from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. Meanwhile, Israeli security forces have arrested 20 activists of Hamas including ten senior leaders of the Hamas organization in the West Bank, a military spokeswoman said on Thursday.