Palestinian Jihadist Vows To Avenge Leader’s Death

– An Israeli air strike has killed a senior commander of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

– Israel’s prime minister said that Abu al-Ata was a “ticking bomb” who was planning to carry out attacks on the country

– The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Abu al-Ata was “responsible for most of the terror attacks in the last year from the Gaza Strip”

 

An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a residential building in the eastern Shejaiya area of Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, causing an explosion that could be heard from kilometres away. The missile hit the third floor, killing Abu al-Ata and his wife.

Four of his children and a neighbour were reportedly injured.

Israel’s prime minister said that Abu al-Ata was a “ticking bomb” who was planning to carry out attacks on the country.

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At least 70 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since the killing, which PIJ has vowed to avenge.

Seventeen Israelis have been lightly wounded in rocket attacks across the south, according to the Barzilai Medical Center in the city of Ashkelon.

Medics said that an eight-year-old girl was also in a serious condition after collapsing as her family rushed towards a bomb shelter when an air raid siren sounded in Holon, south of Tel Aviv.

Around the same time as the attack on Abu al-Ata, two people were killed and 10 injured in an Israeli air strike on the home of another Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria’s state news agency Sana said.

Syrian media said that another Israeli air strike targeted the home of a PIJ leader in Damascus

Israel did not comment on the report and it was not clear if the PIJ leader, Akram al-Ajouri, was among the dead. Sana said that his son Moaz was killed.

PIJ, which is backed by Iran, has its headquarters in Damascus and is one of the strongest militant groups in Gaza.

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A PIJ statement confirming Abu al-Ata’s death said that he was its commander in Gaza’s northern region and that he was undertaking “a heroic jihadist action”.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Abu al-Ata was “responsible for most of the terror attacks in the last year from the Gaza Strip”, including the launching of rockets towards the southern Israeli city of Sderot in August and earlier this month.