GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli war planes shelled the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing, and injuring fifteen others.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces fired two shells at a site used by Islamic Jihad's armed wing near Tal al-Sultan, northeast of Rafah city.
Medical official in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said five were killed and fifteen injured, four critically, in the strike, and transferred to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
One of the deceased has been identified as Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil, a prominent leader in the Islamist movement's al-Quds Brigades.
Medics and Islamic Jihad officials identified the other four brigades members killed as Muhammad Ashour, Abdul Karim Shabat, Basem Abol Ata and Muhammad al-Khudari.
Al-Quds brigades said in a statement received by Ma’an that one of their military sites in Rafah was attacked and a number of fighters were killed and injured.
Brigades' spokesman Abu Ahmad said the Israeli strike is one of the most brutal attacks on the Palestinian resistance since April. A spate of rockets and airstrikes on Gaza in April killed at least 18 people before factions agreed a ceasefire. More
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