Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s fighting force of 10,000 armed operatives, combined with Hamas’s 30,000 armed wing members, means that Gaza has developed a veritable terrorist army.
Jihadis celebrate Notre Dame Cathedral fire, dub it a punishment, a good omen
A French-speaking jihad supporter on Facebook writes: “800 years of history of pedophilia, worship of Satan and other diabolical rituals, all up in smoke in a few minutes ... it’s thrilling.”
Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani said in a speech that aired on IRINN TV (Iran) on Feb. 22 that the spreading of the culture of jihad and martyrdom has “unique and positive implications on moral, religious and national aspects.”
Turkey-based Muslim Brotherhood TV channels are an emerging hotbed of extremism, jihadi ideology and anti-Semitism.
“In the next confrontation with the occupation, the axis of resistance will operate from the north in Lebanon to the south in Gaza,” said Ziad Nakhala in an interview to the state-owned Iranian TV channel Al-Alam.
“We hold Hamas responsible for everything coming from Gaza,” said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.
Jerusalem should not allow itself to be dragged into a war in Gaza that would run against national interests; it would divert Israel from its strategic long-term interests in the northern arena, where more powerful enemies are present.
Approximately 16,000 Gaza Arabs took part in rioting at five locations along the border on Friday, throwing firebombs, burning tires and throwing rocks at Israeli troops.
Ziad al-Nakhleh will remotely lead a powerful and well-armed guerilla-terrorist army that has its own arsenal of rockets in Gaza, weapons-production centers, Gazan battalions and terror tunnels.
The mother woke her children and evacuated them to the home’s bomb shelter just seconds before the medium-range grad rocket smashed the house deep inside Israeli territory.
Six people who suffered light injuries running for shelter during the alarms were taken to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, along with two who suffered panic attacks from fear.
It launched a large-scale mortar-shell attack two days after losing three of its armed members to an Israeli airstrike in response to a gun attack on an IDF unit patrolling the Gazan border. Is Palestinian Islamic Jihad responding to the killing of its operatives or acting under Iranian instructions?
