Al Qassam website - An Israeli airstrike killed six Palestinians Thursday evening in southern Gaza, medics said.

Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said the airstrikes targeted a house in Rafah city.

Abu Salmiya added that the martyrs reached the hospital as fragments, the medical identified the martyrs as Abu Awad An-Nirab, Head of Popular Resistance, Abu Jameel Shaath, Emad Hammad and Khaled Al Masry.

Eyewitnesses said the home belonged to Popular Resistance Committees official Khaled Shaath. His daughter was injured in the attack.

The popular Resistance issued a statement mourned the martyrs and promised that it will responde "An-Nasser Salah Edeen Brigades mourns its general leader Abu Awad An-Nirab, its commander Emad Hammad and Abu Jameel Shaath and all the martyrs."