A senior Palestinian security official in the Hamas-led cabinet was assassinated late Thursday in an Israeli air-strike on a camp in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said.
They said Jamal Abu Samhadana, also the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, was among four people died in a PRC-run camp near Khan Younis. The PRC is a coalition of armed groups in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the strike.
The Palestinian interior minister Said Siyam appointed Abu Samhadana as supervisor over the Interior Ministry, which oversees security services, in April. The move angered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The PRC vowed fresh attacks on Israel to avenge Abu Samhadana's death. "The Zionist entity and Zionist settlements near Gaza Strip will not feel security and safety anymore. Our rockets will rain into the Zionist entity and our heroes will blow themselves up among their dirty bodies," said a spokesman for the group.
