Jerusalem:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Rafah Islamic Jihad Brigade, was killed in an airstrike in the city of Rafah in the southern tip of Gaza.
ELIMINATED: Aiman Zaarab
Zaarab was one of the commanders of the Rafah Islamic Jihad Brigade, responsible for the attack by the Nukhba Islamic Jihad force on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post during the October 7 massacre.
Along with Zaarab, two additional Islamic Jihad terrorists… pic.twitter.com/Kh5l2Nk7rI
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Zaarab directed elite Islamic Jihad forces during the Oct. 7 attack on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post on the border with the Gaza Strip, the IDF said, as cited Saturday by Xinhua news agency.
Zaarab “commanded and directed” several attacks and, in recent days, led Islamic Jihad preparations for combat in the southern Gaza Strip against the Israeli military, according to the IDF statement.
Along with Zaarab, two other Islamic Jihad operatives were killed during the attack, the IDF added.
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