At least 13 people diedincluding three Islamic Jihad leaders and several children, and 20 others were injured in the early hours of Tuesday as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has announced that it carried out air strikes with about 40 planes and drones against three commanders of the Al Qods Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad has confirmed the deaths of three leaders of the Al Qods Brigades, identified as Jihad Gannamsecretary of the military council of the group; Jalil Al Bahtinicommander in the north of the Gaza Strip, e Tareq Ezzedin“a leader of military action” of the movement in the occupied West Bank.
Ghannan was targeted by the Israeli military as “one of the most senior members of the organization“, which “was in charge of coordinating arms and cash transfers between the terrorist organization Hamas” and Islamic Jihad.
For his part, Bahtini was “responsible for firing rockets at Israel last month,” while Ezzedine was recently “planning and directing multiple attacks against Israeli civilians” in the West Bank, a territory Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War since 1967. .
A military spokesman said the “Shield and Arrow” operation was in response to the firing of more than 100 missiles last week by Palestinian militias from Gaza into Israel to avenge the death of a Palestinian prisoner after 86 days of hunger strike. Jader Adnan, a leading member of the YIP in the occupied West Bank.
“We mourn the leaders, their wives and many of their children who died in a cowardly Zionist crime,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement, while he promised that “the blood of martyrs will increase strength“of the movement.
The Islamist movement Hamas, which rules de facto in the Strip, also mourned the deaths of these “distinguished resistance leaders who were brothers in blood and arms in the Islamic Jihad movement, who were assassinated by insidious Zionist forces.
The attacks come less than a week after an Egyptian-brokered truce was announced following a new escalation in violence between the Israeli military and Islamic Jihad.
The militant group said on Tuesday that Israel had failed to comply with “all the initiatives of the mediators” and promised “avenge the bosses“killed in the latest attacks.
Tuesday’s dead bring 120 the number of Palestinians killed this year in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this 2023, 19 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian also lost their lives, according to a count by the AFP news agency based on official sources from both sides of the conflict.
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Source: Clarin
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