Islamic Jihad armed wing says two of its fighters killed

Islamic Jihad says two men killed in bombing sorties overnight were fighters in the group’s Quds Brigade armed wing.

Mahmoud Sobhi Issa, 26, and Fawzi Abdel Halim Bawadi, 24, are named as the two men killed in the Bureij refugee camp.

A picture taken in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2019 shows an explosion following an airstrike by Israel. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

The two bring the Palestinian death toll to six, including a woman and a baby killed in an explosion that Israel insists it was not responsible for. The Defense Ministry said the two were likely killed by a failed rocket launch.

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