GAZA (Reuters) – A missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed a Palestinian militant riding a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel Tuesday, the Israeli army and the Islamic Jihad militant group said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the air strike had been aimed at the Islamic Jihad militant who had planned to carry out an attack inside Israel.
The group identified the dead militant as Mohammed Najjar, 24, and said he had previously been wounded in the head in fighting during the three-week Gaza offensive that Israel launched in late 2008.
It was the third targeted killing of militants by Israel in the past few weeks after a long period in which the Jewish state had refrained from the practice following the Gaza offensive.
Local residents said the air strike took place east of the town of Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip and wounded another man, who was not immediately identified.
Security officials said three more air strikes took place around midnight with two missiles slamming into a large Hamas security compound, and an Islamic Jihad training camp and a Hamas naval police station also sustaining hits. There were no reports of any casualties.