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| Islamic Jihad company commander who took part in Oct. 7 killed in northern Gaza, 23 turbans head to the afterlife across Gaza | ||
| 2025-01-06 | ||
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced this Sunday that they eliminated a commander 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... (PIJ) who participated in the onslaught of October 7, 2023. This is Saad Said Zaki Dahnon, the commander of a PIJ company and deputy head of the rocket division of the terrorist group north of the Paleostinian coastal enclave, according to the IDF. The IDF detailed that Dahnon was hit during recent operations in Jabaliya, dying in hand-to-hand combat with Givati Brigade troops. The Israeli army claimed that Dahnon had infiltrated the country and participated in the October 7 attack, in addition to being involved in multiple attacks against IDF troops in the Beit Lahiya area. In a video released by the IDF, Dahnon and another terrorist are seen covering themselves with blankets and trying to approach the Israeli troops under the cover of darkness and rain. The IDF reported that the PIJ commander was shot down, while the second operation surrendered to the troops, which can be seen in the images released by the military. The second agent was carrying an bomb and was transferred to Israel to be interrogated, the IDF concluded.
A pair of Israeli drone strikes hit Hamas operatives inside the Gaza Strip’s designated humanitarian zone, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday. The strikes came after a weekend of intense Israeli bombing of terror targets in the Palestinian coastal enclave that, according to unverified reports from officials in the Hamas-controlled territory, killed over 80 people. A drone strike was carried out against a group of Hamas operatives at a command center in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the IDF said. The compound, in the Khan Younis area of the humanitarian zone, was used by the Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops in Gaza and against Israel, the military said. Gaza medics said the compound was a police station and that five people were killed. Last week, Hamas said the IDF killed its chief of police and his deputy in a strike also in the zone. The IDF said a separate strike in the Deir al-Balah area of the humanitarian zone targeted a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative who had carried out previous attacks from the area. In both strikes, the IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm. Israel accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian shelters, civilian buildings, and the civilian population as human shields. The humanitarian zone is located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, the western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The size of the zone has changed multiple times, amid evolving IDF operations against the Hamas terror group. Meanwhile, a soldier in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion was seriously wounded in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. According to an IDF probe, the soldier was injured when a brick fell on his head during “operational activity.” He was taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment. Rescuers in the Hamas-controlled Strip said that at least 23 people were killed in strikes on Sunday. The figures, which cannot be verified, do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. An air strike on a house in northern Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan area killed at least 11 people according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal. He said the victims included women and children. “Rescuers are still searching for five people trapped under the rubble of the house,” he said, adding his crew members were using “bare hands” in the effort. The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA later reported that a young girl was rescued from the rubble of the building. Health officials also said an airstrike killed five people in a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, while another airstrike killed four others in Jabalia in the northern edge of the enclave, where Israeli forces have been operating for three months. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said a total of 88 people were killed over the previous 24 hours. The IDF said over 100 targets were struck in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas operatives. The strikes were carried out by the Israeli Air Force in a joint effort with the Southern Command, following intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet security agency. Additionally, the IDF said it struck several rocket-launching sites in Gaza over the weekend. Renewed fire from Gaza has repeatedly triggered air raid sirens in Israeli communities near the Strip in recent days. Rocket fire had become less frequent as the war dragged on but has intensified since late December as Israel continues a three-month major land and air offensive in the territory’s north. The recent escalation coincides with ongoing indirect negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal that has eluded the sides since November 2023. Mediators Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have tried for months to strike a deal to end the war and secure the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The latest effort comes just days before Donald Trump takes office as US president on January 20. Kan cited a Palestinian source familiar with the developments as saying the next two days are critical, and that there is a preference to reach a partial deal rather than a full agreement, with Hamas fearing the situation could change once Trump is installed. The Republican, who has backed Israel in the war, has repeatedly warned of serious consequences if the hostages are not released by his inauguration. 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