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| Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims gunmen shot dead by IDF in West Bank raid as members |
| 2023-05-11 |
Follow up to this story from yesterday. [IsraelTimes] A local wing of the Paleostinian 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... claims the two button men rubbed out by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Qabatiya this morning as members. In a statement, the Jenin-based group says Ahmed Jamal Assaf, 19, is a fighter in the Islamic Jihad’s Qabatiya unit, and Rani Walid Qatanat, 24, is a member of the so-called Jenin Brigade. Palestinian teen critically wounded in shootout with IDF that killed 2 gunmen IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry reports a Paleostinian teen is critically maimed after a shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Qabatiya this morning. The ministry says the 17-year-old was shot in the chest and abdomen. Earlier, the IDF and the PA ministry reported that two button men were killed in the shootout in the northern West Bank. The IDF says the button men opened fire from a passing car. Troops also seized two firearms from their vehicle. |
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