Ynet: Islamic Jihad top leader Mahmoud Majzoub and his brother Nidal were killed Friday by a car bomb in the town of? Siodn in Lebanon.? It was not immediately clear who targeted the official Mahmoud Majzoub, known as Abu Hamze, and his brother Nidal – also an Islamic Jihad member – but an Israeli military source said he was not aware of any involvement by Israel.? ?

“Mahmoud al-Majzoub was critically wounded. Authorities told now us he is out of danger. But there was another martyr who was killed,” Islamic Jihad representative in Beirut Abu Imad al-Rifai told Al Jazeera television. However, Mahmoud later died of his wounds at the hospital.

Rifai said it was the second assassination attempt on Majzoub, and blamed Israel for the blast.