Israel kills Islamic Jihad logistics chief in Rafah

A person who is said to be responsible for logistics operations Islamic Jihad In the southern Gaza city of Rafah, he died as a result of an Israeli bombardment, as announced by the Israeli army in a statement that was not a terrorist organization, commenting on the matter.

“As part of his role, (the militiaman) was responsible for preparing the enemy for the Israeli army’s maneuvers in Rafah.”According to military reports.

This morning, the Israeli commander announced Islam Jamaiseh of the Al Quds ForceWeapons Division Islamic Jihaddied as a result of a series of attacks in the West Bank city of Jenin (north), which wounded at least eight people, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Islamic Jihad was confirmed shortly after the death of Jamaiseh, the leader of the so-called Jenin Battalion.

The announcements came after the Israeli military air force carried out more than 70 strikes in the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, while the infantry carried out new strikes east of Rafah city and in Jabalia to the north.

In these attacks, according to the Israel Defense Forces, weapons depots, infrastructure and shelters of Palestinian militants have been destroyed.

Meanwhile, members of the Kivadi Brigade carried out an operation east of Rafah that resulted in the death of a militant and the seizure of several weapons. Egos commandA rocket launcher has also been deployed in the area and captured.

At Yapaliya, the Parachute Brigade killed an unspecified number of militants in an operation in which troops of the 7th Armored Corps also participated.

For their part, Palestinian sources have confirmed that at least two civilians were killed and dozens injured in the past few hours. The dead were inside a house hit by an Israeli bomb in the center of the Gaza Strip.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported several explosions near an Emirati hospital west of Rafah and several injuries in the southeast of the city. There were also reports of injuries near Kamal Advan Hospital, north of the Strip.

“According to the intelligence of the Interior Service, a fighter jet and an armed forces helicopter attacked the compound used as an operations center” In Jenin, a military statement this Saturday described.

Islam Qamaiza, the commander of the Jenin Brigade and deputy organizer of Al Quds, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was killed in the attack. According to the Israeli military, Kamaisah has been involved in different attacks in the area, including the shooting death of an Israeli in the nearby settlement of Hermesh in May 2023.

In a statement, Palestinian Islamic Jihad mourned the death of its commander in Jenin and condemned the use of “aircraft” as representing a “dangerous development” in the escalation of violence in the West Bank.

The Israeli military intensified frequent incursions into the already occupied West Bank after a Hamas attack on October 7, which has since left more than 500 Palestinians dead.

On the Israeli side, twelve people died in 2024: ten in eight Palestinian attacks, four uniformed officers and six civilians (three of them immigrants); Except for an Israeli child who was found dead near a settlement on April 13 when a soldier detonated an explosive device during a raid in Jenin.

(with information from Europa Press and EFE)