Popular Resistance Committees leader, wife killed as Israeli helicopters target car in northern Gaza Strip

Popular Resistance Committees leader, wife killed as Israeli helicopters target car in northern Gaza Strip. Today's killings bring the total number of people killed in the Gaza Strip to 25 in the past two days.

Gaza – Ma'an – 17.1.08 13,48Israeli helicopters assassinated a leader in the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, and his wife by shelling his car as he was traveling near Sheikh Zayid City in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon.

Palestinian medics and sources within the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades named the victims as forty-three-year-old Ra'd Abu Al-Ful and his forty-year-old wife Amina Abu Al-Ful.

Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that the bodies of the victims were torn to pieces. They were taken to Kamal Udwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

Witnesses said several other people were injured in the raid.

Today's killings bring the total number of people killed in the Gaza Strip to 25 in the past two days. On Tuesday Israeli tank fire killed Husam Zahhar, the son of one of Hamas' senior leaders, Mahmoud Zahhar, a former Palestinian Foreign Minister.