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Two PRC members killed in IAF strike in Gaza Strip (JPost)
An Israel Air Force jet fired missiles into a car traveling in northern Gaza City Monday evening, killing Majdi Hamed, 24, and Eiman Assiylia, 26, both senior militants from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Three others were wounded when three missiles slammed into the vehicle as it traveled outside the Jabalya refugee camp, Palestinian security officials reported. The identities of the three were unconfirmed.

IDF officials confirmed the strike, saying that Hamed played a central role in the April 26 attempted car bombing and shooting attack at the Karni crossing into Israel. Hamed was also involved, along with Fatah terrorists, in a second attempt to perpetrate a shooting attack at the crossing on December 15, 2005. Both attacks were thwarted by Palestinian Security Forces guarding the terminal.

The PRC, which were formed shortly after the intifada began in 2000, comprise of renegades from several militias, including Fatah, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

In April of this year, Jamal Abu Samhadanah, the overall commander of the PRC in the Gaza Strip, was appointed to a senior post in the Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry, which is formally responsible for the Palestinian security forces. The PRC is behind several mortar and rocket attacks into Israel, military sources have said.