2 Israelis killed by rocket attack in southern Israel

JERUSALEM (AA) - Two Israelis were killed and another was injured on Sunday by a rocket attack in southern Israel.

“A 40-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were killed by a direct rocket hit on a factory in Ashkelon city,” Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency agency, said in a statement.

“Another, 50, was moderately wounded and transferred to the hospital for treatment,” it added.

Palestinian resistance factions, meanwhile, announced in a joint statement Sunday that they had targeted Beersheba and Ashkelon with dozens of rockets "in response to the Israeli targeting of safe houses in the Gaza Strip."

The resistance factions warned Israel against continuing "the policy of targeting and bombing safe houses," vowing retaliation.

Since Saturday, nine Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her infant child, have been martyred and nearly 50 wounded by Israeli air strikes.