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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel says killed Islamic Jihad operative who ''recruited Palestinians for Hezbollah''
2024-08-30
[NAHARNET] The Israeli military said it has killed a "significant" 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...
operative in a strike in the Syria-Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
border area, while a monitor of Syria's conflict reported four dead in the incident.

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said in a statement that three of its fighters "from the Syrian arena" were killed, while Lebanon's Hezbollah issued a statement saying a fighter was killed, without specifying where.

The Israeli air force "struck and eliminated... a significant terrorist in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization's operations division, in the area of the Syrian-Lebanese border," an Israeli military statement said Wednesday.

The operative was "responsible for the development of the Islamic Jihad's operational plans in Syria and Lebanon", the statement said, adding he had played "a central role" in recruiting Paleostinians for Hezbollah, which is also an ally of Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
"Additional Islamic Jihad holy warriors who were on their way from Syria to carry out terrorist activities" in Lebanon for Hezbollah were also "eliminated" in the strike, the statement said.
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