A leader in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and his companions were killed, and several others were injured, on Friday, as a result of a series of air strikes that it is still carrying out in separate areas of the Gaza Strip.

Aircraft raids targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, north of Gaza City, killing Iyad al-Hassani, a prominent leader in the al-Quds Brigades, and his companion, Walid Abdel-Al, and wounding 6 others.

The raid caused great damage to the apartment and a fire engulfed parts of it.

The occupation planes also bombed and destroyed 7 other houses in Rafah, Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, Beit Lahiya, and the Fallujah area in Jabalia.

The Israeli warplanes bombed several lands in separate areas of the Strip.

While the resistance continued to fire rockets and mortars towards the occupation sites, settlements and cities.