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| Two PIJ commanders killed in IDF strike in central Gaza, IDF and Shin Bet say |
| 2024-09-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Thursday airstrike targeted command post embedded in humanitarian zone; military says it also struck two former schools housing Hamas command sites in Gaza City Two 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... battalion commanders were killed in a recent Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the IDF and Shin Bet announced Saturday. Also on Saturday, the IDF said it had carried out airstrikes on command rooms operating from two former schools in Gaza City. A Thursday strike on the battalion commanders targeted a command room embedded within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, according to the military. Several terror operatives were killed in the strike, including Abdullah Khattab, the commander of PIJ’s South Deir al-Balah Battalion, and Hatem Abu al-Jidyan, the commander of PIJ’s East Deir al-Balah Battalion, the IDF and Shin Bet said. The IDF said Khattab had overseen his battalion during the October 7 onslaught and was involved in numerous attacks on Israel and troops, including rocket fire and anti-tank fire. Abu al-Jidyan also advanced numerous attacks against troops amid the ongoing fighting. To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence. "This is another example of the systematic use by the terror organizations in the Gaza Strip of the population and civilian infrastructure, including the humanitarian zone, to carry out terror acts against the state and IDF troops," the military added. As for the Saturday strikes on the schools, according to the military, Hamas was using the Amr Ibn al-Aas School in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. "Three deaders and more than 20 maimed people were retrieved after an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at a prayer room and a classroom at the Amr Ibn al-Aas School, where refugees were sheltering in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City," Mahmud Bassal, front man for Gaza’s civil defense agency, told AFP. In the other strike, the military said Hamas was using the Halima al-Sadia School in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. At least 8 Paleostinians were killed, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported. The IDF earlier said in a statement it had "conducted a precise strike on bully boyz who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center... embedded inside a compound that previously served as the ’Halima al-Sa’diyya’ School in the northern Gaza Strip." It said Hamas "systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity." Wafa said the dead were in refugee tents inside the former school. The IDF also said it carried out "many steps" to mitigate casualties in those strikes. In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF. In central Gaza’s urban refugee camp of Nuseirat, al-Awda Hospital said it received the bodies of nine people killed in two separate air raids. One hit a residential building, killing four people and wounding at least 10, while five people were killed in a strike on a house in western Nuseirat. Separately, al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, central Gaza’s main hospital, said a woman and her two children were killed in a strike on a house in the nearby urban refugee camp of Bureij. The military did not immediately comment on those incidents. The IDF also released footage Saturday from a recent engagement with button men in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, when troops raided a building where a group of terror operatives were holed up. Amid the raid, the button men hurled a grenade at the troops, wounding at least one of the soldiers. The IDF said the troops returned fire, killing the button men. On their bodies, the soldiers found weapons and documents, the military added. In recent days, the IDF said troops have killed dozens of button men in Tel Sultan. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , in collaboration with local health authorities, has pursued a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza after its first polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... case in around 25 years. Limited pauses in the fighting have allowed the campaign to proceed. UN officials said they were making progress, having reached over half of the children needing the drops in the first two stages in the southern and central Gaza Strip. On Sunday, the campaign will move to the northern Gaza Strip. A second round of vaccination will be required four weeks after the first. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. |
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