Jerusalem ? An Israeli airstrike killed two militants in the Gaza Strip and wounded at least six other people, and a Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli soldier at a West Bank checkpoint Thursday, in a continuing surge of violence triggered by a suicide bombing earlier this week.

The airstrike was the second in two days, after Israeli security chiefs decided to resume targeted killings in response to the bombing Monday that killed five Israelis.

In Thursday’s strike an Israeli aircraft launched missiles at a group from the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in a house near the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and the army said.

Two Al Aqsa leaders, identified as Iyad Qadas and Iyad Najar, were killed, and a third was wounded, medics said. At least five other people also were wounded, one of them an 11-year-old girl, according to hospital staff cited by The Associated Press.

In other violence Thursday, a Palestinian killed an Israeli soldier at the Qalandia checkpoint in the West Bank, a major crossing point between Ramallah and Jerusalem. The Palestinian pulled out a knife and stabbed the soldier in the neck during a security check, the army said. The attacker was arrested.