This article was originally published by the IMEMC and is republished with permission.

Palestinian medical sources reported that one Palestinian fighter was killed and 5 others injured when Israeli jet fighters fired missiles at a group of resistance men in Khaza'a town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Friday at dawn.

Sources at the al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, said that the resistance fighter killed was one of their fighters.

With today's death the death toll in the Gaza Strip since Thursday evening now stands at 7.

Six Palestinian resistance fighters were killed on Thursday evening in three different Israeli army attacks, among the six was Mohamed Abullah, 41, a top leader in the Islamic Jihad's al Quds brigades.