Twelve people, including three leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, as well as children, as reported by the local authorities, were killed in the early hours today, Tuesday (9/5) in Israeli airstrikes at Gaza Strip.
From the side of Israeli army announced it conducted targeted operations against three commanders of Al Quds Brigadesof his armed arm Palestinian Islamist movement that Israel characterizes as a “terrorist” organization.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirmed in a statement the death of three Al-Quds Brigades officers. He named them as Jihad Ghannam, secretary of the military council of the Al-Quds Brigades; Khalil al-Bakhtani, a member of the same council; and Tarek Ezzedine, one of the movement’s “chiefs of military action” in the occupied West Bank, who coordinated from the Strip Gaza.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed twelve people, including “children”, and injured 20 othersaccording to the health ministry of the under strict blockade of the coastal Palestinian enclave, which is ruled by the Islamist movement Hamas.
Rescue operations were continuing in the zones affected by the Israeli armed forces, the ministry added in a statement released around 05:30 (local and Greek time).
“We mourn the leaders and their wives and some of their children who were killed” in this “cowardly Zionist crime”the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement, stressing that “the blood of the martyrs will increase (the) resolve” of the movement.
The Israel “he mocked all the initiatives of the mediators, the resistance will take revenge on the leaders” who were killed in the night, he added, as reported by the Athens News Agency.
An AFP photojournalist saw the body of a Jihad Ghannam man at a hospital morgue in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, a journalist from the same agency saw part of an apartment building in flames after the night airstrikes and ambulances transporting victims to hospitals.
“Arms Transfers”
The Israeli airstrikes, which began shortly after 2:00 a.m. (local time and Greek time), were still ongoing at around 03:50 a.m., according to AFP correspondents.
They came less than a week after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal was announced following a fresh escalation in violence between the Israeli army and Palestinian Islamic Jihad over the death in an Israeli prison of the movement’s three-month hunger strike.
In separate statements for each Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative targeted overnight, the Israeli military said it would “continue to act for [να προασπίσει] the safety of the citizens of Israel”.
He introduced Jihad Ghannam as “one of the most important leaders” of the movement, responsible “for coordinating the transfer of weapons and money between the terrorist organization Hamas” and his own.
For Khalil Bakhtani, the Israeli military said he was “responsible for launching rockets [από τη Λωρίδα της Γάζας] against Israel” in the last thirty days.
As for Tarek Ezzedine, it said that he “recently planned” and directed “attacks against Israeli civilians” in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, and that he had been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison in Israel for his “involvement”. especially in kamikaze bomber attacks in the 2000s.
Tarek Ezzedine, originally from Jenin, in the north West Bankwas released in a prisoner exchange in 2011 and deported to the Gaza Strip, the enclave controlled by Hamas since 2007.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has clearly seen a resurgence of violence since the beginning of this year, after one of the most right-wing governments in Israel’s history took office in late December under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since the beginning of the year, at least 120 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, a Ukrainian woman and an Italian have been killed in violent incidents linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an AFP tally based on official statements from authorities on both sides.
These statistics include, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, among minors, and, on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, among minors, as well as three members of the Arab minority.
Source: News Beast
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