GAZA CITY: Eighteen Palestinians, including 11 schoolchildren and a pregnant woman, were wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and medics said, according to AFP. The raid struck Mohammed al-Sumeiri, a Hamas policeman, and his passenger as they rode a motorcycle in the town of Khan Yunis, the sources said. Eleven schoolchildren and a pregnant woman passing by in the street were among those also wounded, they said.