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IAF destroys homes of all Hamas commanders, kills senior members
In recent air strikes on Gazoo, all of the homes of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, brigade commanders have been destroyed, Israel Radio reported early on Wednesday.According to a report by the Paleostinian news agency Ma'an, one of the homes targeted was that of senior Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim 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... terrorist Hafiz Mohammed Hamad. In the strike early on Tuesday, Hamad and five of his family members were reportedly killed. In a separate incident, a joint IDF-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation struck a vehicle containing a commander of Hamas's naval commando unit, Muhammad Sa'aban, aged 24, on Tuesday. Paleostinian media reported that four Hamas people in total were killed in the targeted strike on the vehicle. Sa'aban's commando unit operated in northern Gazoo, security forces said. He was immediately killed in the strike. Sa'aban was a resident of Jabalia in Gazoo. The strike came hours after the IDF launched Operation Protective Edge in an effort to quell increased rocket fire from Gazoo into southern Israel in recent weeks. Later on Tuesday, the air force struck three homes in Gazoo used by Hamas as command and control centers for enabling rocket fire against Israel. The homes belonged to Muhammad Sba'at, a senior member of Hamas's rocket launching formations in Beit Hanount, who was involved in several recent rocket attacks against Israel, Amin Ibrahim Al-Alba'an, a Hamas member, and Abu Jarad, a Hamas member from northern Gazoo who has been engaged in terrorism against Israel. Paleostinians said six people were killed and about 25 maimed in one of the houses attacked. Some 100 targets in Gazoo have been struck by the IAF since the operation began, including homes used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, underground rocket launchers, underground attack tunnels, remote rocket launch infrastructure, training camps, and additional centers of terrorist activities. Since midnight Tuesday, some 30 rockets fired from the Gazoo Strip have went kaboom!in Israel. The Iron Dome anti-rocket system has intercepted six rockets. Paleostinians say that a total of 24 people have been killed in IAF strikes since Operation Defensive Edge began. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-09 |
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