The video shows the moment when an apartment located in Al-Nasr neighborhood in the Gaza Strip was targeted, with smoke covering the place thickly.
An official in the Palestinian movement announced that a senior leader in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was killed in the latest Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday.
The source revealed that Iyad al-Hassani, responsible for the operations file and acting head of the military council in the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the movement, was killed in an Israeli raid on a house in the western Gaza Strip.
While the Israeli “Kan” radio correspondent quoted a military spokesman as saying that Al-Hassani Khalifa Khalil Al-Bahtini, the commander of the northern region of the Gaza Strip, is in the jihad.
In addition, medical officials confirmed that two Palestinians were killed in total and others were injured in the attack that targeted an apartment located in the Al-Nasr neighborhood in the western Gaza Strip.
Al-Hassani is the sixth council member to be killed by Israel this week. Musaed al-Hassani was killed in the airstrike.
The commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army, Major General Eliezer Toledano, announced Thursday that the army will continue targeting members of the Islamic Jihad movement, after the killing of Ahmed Abu Daqqa, a member of the Military Council of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the movement.
Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath correspondent reported that Abu Daqqa was killed and 3 others were wounded, when an Israeli raid targeted his house Thursday, in the town of Bani Suhaila in Khan Yunis.
He also explained that Abu Daqqa was the deputy of Ali Ghali, commander of the missile unit in the Al-Quds Brigades.
The latest round of tension between the two sides began on May 2, following the killing of prisoner Adnan Khader in Israeli prisons, after 3 months of hunger strike, and Israel’s refusal to hand over his body to his family. This prompted the factions to launch dozens of rockets towards the Palestinian territories.
Then came another round of escalation, on May 9, with the Israeli forces assassinating several leaders of the Jihad, and then the one in charge of the missile unit, Ali Ghali, and Abu Daqqa yesterday.
While the movement stipulated stopping the assassinations and handing over Khader’s body for the sake of a cease-fire, Tel Aviv refused, stressing that it adheres to the cease-fire in exchange for a cease-fire.
It is noteworthy that the Strip has been witnessing intermittent rounds of escalation between the two sides for months, even years, while the last round of fighting claimed about 33 Palestinians and 110 injuries, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
