The Israeli Army killed an Islamic Jihad commander who participated in the October 7 attacks, in a bombing in the southern Gaza Strip. The terrorist, identified as Aiman Zaarabdied along with two alleged militiamen who were in his apartment at the time of the bombing, according to authorities.
Zaarab was “a veteran Islamic Jihad agent who directed numerous attacks, and led several infiltration attempts into Israeli territory in recent years,” the Army said in a statement.
Specifically, during the October 7 attacks, in which some 1,200 people died and more than 200 were kidnapped, The militiaman led an offensive against the Sufa military outpost and the kibbutz of the same nameaccording to the armed forces.
Meanwhile, the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported several Israeli bombings in different parts of the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of several people.
Since the war in Gaza began, Hamas terrorists have reported at least 34,654 people dead and 77,908 injured in the small Palestinian enclave. Israel, however, denies these data disseminated by extremists.
Israeli authorities said Saturday night that they have dismantled a Hamas cell in the town of Tulkaremin the occupied West Bank.
For its part, the al Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, recognized the death of three of its members in an Israeli operation that, according to the Palestinian terrorist group, lasted fifteen hours.
Among the dead is the commander of the brigades in Tulkarem, Alaa Adibas confirmed by the Palestinian group.
In addition to the three Hamas militants, the Israeli Army said it had killed an Islamic Jihad fighter, while another suspected militant was detained.
A police officer was also injured in the operation and was evacuated to a hospital.
Israeli authorities were searching for a group of young men accused of killing an Israeli soldier in November in an armed attack at the entrance to the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarem, and attacking a vehicle last April in the town. of Nabi Ilyas, wounding two people, one of them a soldier.
The al Qasam Brigades identified the three dead militiamen as those responsible for the “heroic operations” of Beit Lid and Nabi Ilyas.
According to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, infantry units, reconnaissance drones, missiles and grenades were deployed during the raid, causing the death of five Palestinians (the Army only reported four dead and one detained).
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05), and so far in 2024 at least 167 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, most of them alleged militiamen or attackers, but also civilians, according to the count. EFE.
(with information from EFE)
