Islamic Jihad commander killed in Rafah: Israeli army

Jerusalem: The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Aiman ​​Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.

Zaarab led Islamic Jihad’s elite forces in the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post on the Gaza Strip border, the IDF was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency on Saturday.

Zaarab had “ordered and directed” several attacks and in recent days led Islamic Jihad’s preparations for battle in the southern Gaza Strip against the Israeli army, the IDF statement said.

Along with Zaarab, two other Islamic Jihad operatives were killed in the attack, the IDF added.

–IANS