GAZA CITY: Israel launched pre-dawn airstrikes on Tuesday (May 9) against the militant group Islamic Jihad in Gaza, its army said, killing 12 people according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. The ministry said that women and children were among the dead, but did not giv
GAZA CITY: Israel launched pre-dawn airstrikes on Tuesday against the militant group Islamic Jihad in Gaza, its army said, killing 12 people according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.
The militant group confirmed that three senior officials were killed, naming them in a statement as Jihad Ghannam, secretary of the Al-Quds Brigades military council; Khalil al-Bahtini, also of the council and commander of the military wing in northern Gaza; and Tareq Ezzedine, who was described by Islamic Jihad as"one of the heads of military action" in the occupied West Bank who operated from Gaza.
The operation came less than a week after Islamic Jihad announced a truce around Gaza - brokered with help from Egypt - following a fresh flare-up in violence. The military presented Ghannan as"one of the most senior members of the organisation" who"was entrusted with coordinating weapons and money transfers between the Hamas terrorist organisation" and his movement.Ezzedine was recently"planning and direction multiple attacks against Israeli" civilians in the West Bank, where he was from, and which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War.
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