The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced the martyrdom of two of its leaders in the Israeli aggression that targeted the Syrian capital of Damascus last Thursday. 

Political Bureau Chief Abdel Aziz Said al-Minawi (Abu Saeed) and Arab Relations Officer Rasmi Abu Issa (Abu Issam) were assassinated alongside a cadre of their comrades in the treacherous Israeli attack on civilian offices and apartments in Damascus last Thursday.

Their bodies were retrieved at dawn Saturday. 

"While we take pride in our martyred leaders and fighters, we affirm that the enemy's treachery and crimes will only make us more determined and resolute in continuing the resistance until we thwart the enemy's goals and defeat the occupation from our land," a statement released by the movement read. 

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Israeli attack kills 15, injures 16

A Syrian military source confirmed that 15 people were martyred and 16 others, including women and children, were injured in an initial toll following an Israeli occupation aggression on Syria on Thursday.

The source stated that "around 3:20 p.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Golan, targeting several residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and Qudsaya, a town in the Damascus countryside."

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Damascus confirmed that the Israeli aggression targeted the Yafa Youth Development Center affiliated with Palestinian Youth in Qudsaya, Damascus' countryside, resulting in injuries in an initial toll. 

The PIJ, in its statement, considered that "the barbaric aggression launched by the enemy army against a number of civilian institutions and residential homes comes within the framework of its ongoing crimes against the peoples of our nation," explaining that "it reflects the failure of the enemy army in confronting the Resistance forces on the ground, especially in Gaza and South Lebanon."

It further saw that "the lies spread by the enemy army claiming that it targeted the movement's military headquarters and centers are mere fabrications," stressing that such attacks will only increase the movement's "determination and resolve to pursue the path of Jihad and resistance, as we were before and during the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood."