An Israeli helicopter has fired three missiles into a house in a neighbourhood in Gaza City, killing at least two people. At least 11 other people were wounded in the raid on Tuesday, three of them seriously, Aljazeera correspondent in Gaza, Hiba Akila said. Two children were among the injured when three rockets slammed into a house close to Al-Shati refugee camp on the outskirts of the city. The correspondent said witnesses had told her that large numbers of Israeli troops had converged on the border areas of the Gaza Strip. **Targeting Jihad*** An Israeli military spokesman said that members of Jihad had been the target of the attack. Government spokesman Avi Pazner said the Jihad activists had been planning attacks on Israeli targets. "We are compelled to try and pre-empt them and neutralise them before they can carry out their murderous activities," he said. The house was partly destroyed by the force of the explosion. Rubble, the remains of furniture and bloodstained sheets littered the ground. Rescue workers sifted through the debris in a bid to find other victims as a crowd of onlookers gathered. According to witnesses, the first missile hit the targeted house's courtyard but the two others struck the heart of the building. They said the house belonged to Muhammed al-Kharubi, a high-ranking military official from Islamic Jihad, but there was no immediate confirmation that he had been killed in the strike. A security source said the attacks would also involve assassinations of the resistance leaders of the Palestinian groups Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, behind Sunday's attack. The bombing dealt a new blow to the Jewish state's sense of security because Palestinian fighters managed to cut through the Israel's security wall in Gaza for the first time in more than three years of conflict. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A doctor treats a wounded Palestinian girl in Shifa hospital after an Israeli strike in Gaza, March 16, 2004. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)