[IsraelTimes] Thousands march in support of Islamic Jihad; Islamist leader hails Iranian support, slams Arab states for ’embracing Israel'A member of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group was killed on Saturday when a tunnel collapsed in the Gazoo Strip, reports in Paleostinian media said. The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA identified the man as Anas Abu Lashin, 22, and said he was a member of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was reportedly working in a tunnel in the al-Maghazi area in central Gazoo when it caved in.
The Brigades in a statement said Abu Lashin was killed "during preparation" of a tunnel, but did not provide further details.
The Islamist terror movement which controls the coastal enclave has a network of tunnels in the territory, both for smuggling and attack purposes. It was not clear which type of tunnel Abu Lashin was killed in.
The collapse on Saturday is the latest in a series of cave-ins to claim Paleostinian lives. Over a dozen Paleostinians, most of them reportedly members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have been killed in collapses since the beginning of the year.
On Friday, the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
-- another Gazoo-based terror group and longtime ally/rival of Hamas -- staged a public show of force in the Strip, with its leader praising Iran and criticizing Arab states. Thousands of supporters, including fighters from the party’s al-Quds Brigades military wing, took part in the event.
Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah spoke via a video link, using his speech to accuse some Arab countries of abandoning the Paleostinian cause.
"If the Arabs turn their backs on Paleostine and embrace Israel, they can no longer condemn the resistance for taking support from Iran," Shalah said, without naming any countries. "(Iran) is the only country which commits to the unending support of the Paleostinian cause."