Palestinian National Security Forces head killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza

The head of Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF) in the Gaza Strip, Jihad Muheisen has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza city Thursday, reports in Palestinian media outlets said. At the time of filing this report, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) did not comment on Muheisen’s reported death. A report by Hamas stated: “Major General Jihad Muheisen, the head of Hamas-led security forces, died in an airstrike. The bombing on his house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, also killed his family.”

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According to a report by Quds News Network, Muheisen’s family was also killed in the strike. Major General Jihad Muheisen was the commander of the Palestinian NSF in the Gaza Strip which are the paramilitary security forces of the Palestinian National Authority. Apart from Muheisen, two other senior officials in Gaza Strip terror groups were reportedly killed as Israel continues its intense bombing campaign of terror targets in the enclave amid its war with Hamas. Earlier in the day, the IDF said an airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah had killed Rafat Abu Hilal, the head of the military wing of Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees terror group, the third-largest terror faction in the Gaza Strip after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PJI). Hamas-affiliated media in Gaza also reported that Jamila al-Shanti, the widow of Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, was killed in an Israeli strike. With inputs from agencies