A Palestinian was killed and two others wounded shortly after midnight in an Israeli artillery shelling on an area east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and witnesses said Wednesday morning. The witnesses said that the Israeli artillery targeted, with three shells, a group of militants east of the village of Abassan, killing one of them and wounding two. Medical sources told Xinhua that the body of the dead militant as well as the two wounded were evacuated to the European Hospital east of the city in southern Gaza Strip. One of the injured is in serious conditions, the sources added. The identity of the three militants was not known, while the Israeli army has not commented on the incident. The Gaza Strip had witnessed a security tension between Israel and the militant groups in the past week. On Friday, the Israeli air forces launched a series of intensive airstrike on several Hamas targets, where one militant was killed and ten wounded. The Israeli airstrike was a response to three rockets that were fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel. 