Informed Palestinian sources revealed today, Friday, that Abdul Aziz Al-Minawi, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad Movement, was killed yesterday in the raid carried out by Israeli aircraft against the movement’s targets in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The sources told Al-Quds that the attack against targets of the Islamic Jihad movement also led to the death of Rasmi Abu Issa, one of the movement’s leaders, the official in charge of the foreign relations file, and its representative in Algeria for several previous years.

The sources indicated that they were killed in a building that houses the Islamic Jihad's finance headquarters.

She said that a number of members of the leaders' families were killed with them.

Al-Minawi is considered one of the prominent leaders in the Islamic Jihad, and is very close to its Secretary-General, Ziad al-Nakhalah.

He stayed for periods in Beirut, and moved between it and Damascus.

Yesterday, the Islamic Jihad Movement confirmed the death of many of its members as a result of the Israeli bombing.

Syrian sources reported that at least 15 people were killed as a result of the Israeli raid.