Senior Islamic Jihad leader killed, group confirms

Iyad al-Hassani, a senior member of the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Friday, the armed group has confirmed.

Hassani's death brings the total number of senior Islamic Jihad leaders killed in Israel's latest offensive to six.

"Saraya al-Quds mourns its great commander martyr, Iyad al-Abd al-Husseini, known as Abu Anas, a member of the military council and the operations unit leader in Saraya al-Quds, who was killed in a cowardly Zionist assassination operation this evening in Gaza," the group said in a communique.