Two senior terrorists were killed in Gaza Friday, after IDF aircraft targeted a vehicle in the Strip, the army confirmed.

One of the fatalities is Zuhir al-Qaisi, the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, Palestinian sources said. The second terrorist killed in the strike is Ahmad al-Khanini, a senior PRC member freed in the Shalit prisoner swap, the Palestinians said.

A third Palestinian sustained serious wounds in the strike, which targeted a vehicle traveling in western Gaza City, local sources said.

The army confirmed that aircraft carried out a targeted assassination and that the PRC’s chief was among the fatalities.

Al-Khanini was a Nablus-area resident who headed a PRC terror cell in the region. His cell prepared two explosive belts, one of which was seized in the possession of a terrorist en route to an attack in Jerusalem in 2006.

Following his release in the Shalit deal in October of 2011, al-Khanini was expelled to the Gaza Strip.

The PRC is one of the three terror groups behind IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s abduction to Gaza. The organization is also responsible for numerous rocket attacks at southern Israel communities in recent years.

(Source: Ynet)