Israeli airstrike kills two resistance fighters, injures another in Gaza

Two senior resistance fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees were assassinated and another one was critically wounded on Friday evening when an Israeli warplane bombed the car they were traveling in in Ashati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

A spokesman for the health ministry said that two bodies, identified as belonging to Osama Hasumi and Mohamed Fasih, arrived charred and ripped up at Al-Shifa hospital.

Local security sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the airstrike directly hit a car traveling along a coastal road near Ashati refugee camp to the west of Gaza.

The sources added that the assassinated men are senior members of Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.

In this regard, Palestinian political analyst Iyad Qarra warned that this deadly airstrike would lead to serious violent confrontations between the Palestinian resistance and Israel in Gaza and the occupied territories.

Qarra added that Israel seeks to drag the region into further tension following its failure to find the three missing Jewish settlers.