Gaza – Ma’an – A Gaza armed group said two of its members were killed while carrying out a “Jihad mission” on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, said in a phone call, “Ahmad Abu Darb and Ibrahim Qatasha died while they were implementing a jihadi mission” without explaining the nature of this mission.

Meanwhile local sources said that two people were killed in an unexplained explosion in that set fire to a house north of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medics at Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah said that two burnt bodies arrived at the facility on Tuesday afternoon.

It was not immediately clear if the explosion was related to the deaths of the two fighters.