
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early morning Saturday targeting a private car in the Tel As-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the south.
The missile hit the car directly killing Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades leader Taysir Abu Sneima and his assistant Muhammad Awaja and injuring critically a third militant identified as Shadi Az-Zatmah, medical officials said.
The early morning victims brought the death toll in the coastal enclave to 16 since Thursday, with more than 60 injuries. Six of the dead have been identified as civilians.
Spokesman of the Gaza Strip’s higher committee of ambulance and emergency service Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed that two dead bodies and a critically injured man were transferred to the Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes targeted a car parked in the Ad-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City causing material damage to several vehicles in the lot. No injuries have been reported from the blast.
A third strike targeted a training base for Hamas’ military wing in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, and a fourth raid strike hit the Al-Umour neighborhood in Khan Younis in. No injuries have been reported in either hit.
The border are in Rafah iwas also hit by an Israeli missile from the air while Israeli artillery resumed shelling targets in Gaza City Saturday morning causing no injuries.
Another air raid on Jabalia injured two civilians in Iseila Street. Both were evacuated to Kamal Udwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the strikes, saying the airforce had targeted overnight a “terror activity site,” a “vehicle containing weaponry,” wherein a secondary blast was detected on impact,” “three hamas commanders” in southern Gaza Strip and a smuggling tunnel near Rafah.
Maan News Agency: Early morning strikes kill 2 Hamas militants.
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