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Iyad Tahruri, 24, and Zaev Mazhar, 21, were captured in Nablus, along with an M-16 rifle and ammunition.
“You gotta get your hands dirty,” he told JNS. “Complaining about what’s going on with the attacks in Israel is not the same thing as going there and helping.”
One Israeli man was killed in the attacks; more than 180 of the rockets did not cross over into Israel and landed in the Gaza Strip.
The military confirmed that a “precise attack” targeted Iyad al-Hassani, the sixth leader killed since the start of “Operation Shield and Arrow.“
“It’s not about what you do but why you are doing it. You are there to relieve a soldier or army personnel,” says Camilla Mass of Rochester, N.Y.
The Islamic Republic is directing Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, who live in Beirut and Damascus, to tell rocket commanders in Gaza to keep firing, says the IDF.
Several of those detained were recruited by Tarek Azaldin, a senior PIJ operative killed in a targeted strike in Gaza.
Ahmed Abu-Deka, a senior member of the terror group’s rocket force, was targeted.
“We are fighting against a terrorist organization that also endangers the lives of the residents of the Gaza Strip,” says IDF spokesman.
“Israel must understand that national security is first of all national ethos—it’s ‘Who are we? Why are we here? What’s our legacy as a nation,’” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi.
Seven terrorists, some affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, surrender to Israeli forces in Qabatiya.
Hamas and PIJ have long been known to build terror infrastructure and store weapons in, around and under schools, hospitals and mosques.
