Politics Israeli military reports killing of leading Islamist member

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26.6.2024 - 01:21

ARCHIVE - An Israeli warplane fires flares over the Gaza Strip. Photo: Leo Correa/AP/dpa
ARCHIVE - An Israeli warplane fires flares over the Gaza Strip. Photo: Leo Correa/AP/dpa
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According to the Israeli military, a leading member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization has been killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip. As the army announced on Tuesday evening, the man had developed the organization's rocket arsenal, among other things.

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On October 7 last year, terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups carried out the worst massacre in the history of the Jewish state in Israel's border region with the Gaza Strip. They killed more than 1,200 people and took more than 250 others hostage in the Gaza Strip. The terrorist attack was the trigger for the war.