Hyderabad, Aug. 7 -- The Israeli army on Saturday announced that it had assassinated Khaled Mansour, one of the most prominent leaders of Saraya al-Quds (the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement) in a raid in Rafah city.

This is the second assassination carried out by the occupation forces of a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement inside the Gaza Strip in two days after the killing of Tayseer Al-Jabari, a prominent leader in Saraya al-Quds, on Friday.

According to the official website of the Al-Quds Brigades, Khaled Mansour, commander of the southern region in the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was also one of the first founders of the Al-Quds Brigades groups in the Gaza Strip.

47-year-old Mansour, born in the city ...