The Israeli strike on Friday hit an apartment in Gaza City’s Al-Nasr neighborhood. A senior commander of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was among those martyred in the attack.

Al-Quds Brigades announced the martyrdom of Commander Iyad Al-Abd Al-Hassani (Abu Anas) – a member of the Military Council and leader of the Brigades' operations unit.

Earlier in the day, Israeli military aircraft bombed a house East of Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza Strip, completely destroying it. 

Gaza’s Health Ministry has announced that the Israeli aggression has so far martyred 33 people, including six children and three women, and injured 111 others.

Islamic Jihad has vowed to strike targets deep inside Israel in response to the targeting of residential homes in Gaza. 

The Israeli regime has been continuously bombarding the strip over the past four days, assassinating several resistance commanders in the besieged Gaza Strip. 

In response, Palestinian resistance factions have launched retaliatory strikes toward Israeli cities and settlements. The Israeli military has confirmed so far nearly 1,000 rockets have been fired from the strip.

Israeli towns near the Gaza border also came under renewed rocket fire. On Thursday, an Israeli was killed and several others injured by Palestinian rocket fire in the Israeli city of Rehovot. 

Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations have been working to broker a ceasefire.

After more than a year of unrelenting Israeli violence that has killed over 140 Palestinians, the latest escalation has drawn international calls on Israel to stop its crimes.  

The regime has grown more violent since Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power late last year as the head of an extremist far-right coalition cabinet. 

The ongoing violence has been met with international calls for de-escalation, with the European Union pushing for an immediate ceasefire.