It is “a preventive attack” in which “we estimate that some 15 people died,” Army spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters. The operation “It is not over yet“, he added. While the Islamic Jihad spoke of four deaths, including one of its leaders and a girl.
Shortly after, a second series of Israeli shelling was reported, while rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza.
“The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine and its military wing of the Al-Quds Brigade mourn the death of the great jihadist commander Tayseer al Jabari ‘Abu Mahmud‘, killed in a Zionist assassination in Gaza City,” said the statement, reproduced by the AFP news agency.
Al Jabari was the successor of Baha Abu al-Atakilled in November 2019 in an Israeli airstrike.
“Preemptive Strike”
The bombings carried out by Israel come after a raid carried out on Monday in a refugee camp in Jenin which resulted in the death of a Palestinian teenager and the arrest of Basham Saadia senior Islamic Jihad official, and his son-in-law Ashraf al Jada.
The organization promised retaliation after the operation.
“Following the direct threats posed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the IDF (Israeli Army) is attacking the Gaza Strip right now,” the military announced in a statement on its Twitter account.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA confirmed the start of the attacks, which hit, among other targets, the Palestine Tower building in the Gaza neighborhood of rhyme.
On Tuesday, a day after the raid, the Israeli Army put its anti-rocket system and ordered to close routes near the Gaza Strip, as well as beaches and civilian crossings for fear of attacks from the Palestinian enclave.
The note also announced the closure of a beach, the suspension of trains between the cities of Ashkelon Y Sderotas well as the closure of the passage of Erezthe only point that allows people to cross from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.
Surrounded by Egypt, the Mediterranean Sea and Israel, the Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas It has been under an Israeli blockade for more than 15 years.
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