| How very appropriate. |
Thousands of Palestinian mourners buried one of Islamic Jihad's top leaders Tuesday, a day after he was killed during a shootout with Israeli troops, sparking a new round of violence. Hours after Luay Saadi, the leader of Islamic Jihad's military wing in the West Bank, and a Early Wednesday, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired another rocket into southern Israel, but there were no reports of injuries. An Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile into an open field in the northern Gaza in response, the army said. The army said the airstrike targeted an area used by militants to launch rockets. No injuries were reported. Several sonic booms caused by Israeli warplanes also were heard in Gaza.