A senior Hamas leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday night, Palestinian security sources reported.

An Israeli pilotless drone plane fired two missiles on the car, which was driving on the road of Salah eldein eastern Gaza City, killing Adnan al Ghoul, 47, a senior leader of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, and Emad Abbas, a 30-year-old commander.

Four other people were critically wounded in the attack, witnesses said.

An earlier report said that the two killed were from Saraya al quds, the military wing of Islamic Jihad (holy war).

Meanwhile, a spokesman of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that two of its militants were assassinated.

Palestinian medics in the Gaza City hospital of al Shifaa confirmed that two Palestinians were killed and four other were critically injured when they arrived at the hospital.