GAZA CITY, Sept 30 (AFP) - Two more Palestinians died late Thursday after being hit by an Israeli tank shell in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, raising to four the number killed in the strike, hospital sources said.
The two men had been critically injured in the shelling and died on the way to hospital, medics told AFP.
The strike raised to 28 the total number of Palestinians killed in fierce fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to the Palestinian hospital sources.
The latest two victims' identities were not immediately known.
Medical sources named the first victim as 32-year-old Iyyad Zakut, a member of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of the radical Hamas movement. The identity of the second victim was not clear.
Another four people were seriously injured, they said.
The latest death raised to 4,389 the overall number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, four years ago. They include 3,365 Palestinians and 953 Israelis, according to an AFP count.