Transporting a wounded man to the hospital after the night of incidents in Gaza AHMED ZAKOT | Reuters
The Israeli Air Force used about 40 aircraft and drones to attack members of the Islamic Jihad
At least 12 people, most of them members Islamic Jihaddied whenever Loop and about 20 were injured by the intense bombardment by about 40 planes and drones of the Israeli Air Force on the railway this morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed.
The Israeli military confirmed attacks on Palestinian Islamic Jihad (YIP) targets and some of its leaders, “responsible for launching rockets at Israel in the past month”, such as Jalil Baitini, Tareq Az Aldin and Jahed Ahnam, who were killed ., as well as some of their relatives and neighbors, including women and children.
“Killed in a joint operation by the army and the General Security Service, the YIP commander in northern Gaza, the YIP leader responsible for managing activities in the West Bank from Gaza and the secretary of the YIP military council,” the military said of Baitini, Aldin and Ahnam , that is.
As the Israeli military explained, Jahed Ahnam He was “one of the most senior members of Islamic Jihad,” having served as the group’s operations commander in southern Gaza and was in charge of coordinating with the Islamist movement Hamas.
Tareq Az Aldin was in charge of coordinating YIP members in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and planned “multiple attacks on Israeli civilians”; while Jalil Baitini served as commander of YIP operations in northern Gaza and, according to the military, was responsible for attacks launched from the Strip toward Israel over the past month.
Bombardment by the Israeli air force took place on the cities of Gaza, north of the Strip, and Rafah and Khan Younis, in the south, against buildings where these senior YIP officials lived, including a residential tower in the neighborhood of Al Rimal in Gaza, but also on military installations a group that Israel, the US and the European Union consider terrorist.
A military spokesman said the operation, dubbed “Shield and Arrow,” was in response to the firing of more than a hundred rockets by Palestinian militias from Gaza into Israel last week in retaliation for the death of Palestinian prisoner Jader on an 86-day hunger strike. Adnan, a leading YIP member in the occupied West Bank.
Israel also responded by shelling these shots, but limited to military targets and causing only one death; but the exchange of fire stopped within 24 hours thanks to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt.
YIP sources confirmed to Efe that the group’s militants were in two of them bombed buildings with missiles launched by Israeli drones, which also damaged numerous infrastructures in the enclave.
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Gaza-based JIP, lamented in a statement the deaths of three leaders “who were killed at dawn today as a result of a cowardly Zionist crime.” We mourn our slain leaders, along with their wives and several of their children. We confirm that the blood of the martyrs will strengthen our strength, we will not abandon our positions and the resistance will continue,” they added.
Islamist movement Hamas, which de facto rules the belt, also mourned the death of these “prominent resistance leaders who were brothers in blood and arms in the Islamic Jihad Movement, who were killed by treacherous Zionist forces.” “Our people and their brave resistance knows how to defeat the enemy and respond to his heinous crime in a way that heals the hearts of believers and brings our people closer to the time of liberation from this criminal occupier,” they added.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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