Israel Hits Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Headquarters in Syria, Eliminates Two Top Terrorists
Also, IDF takes out Islamic Jihad rocket commander in northern Gaza.
Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck the headquarters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group in the Syrian capital, Damascus, eliminating two of its top operatives, Israeli media reported Saturday.
The two senior PIJ terror operatives killed in the airstrike were identified as the group’s ‘foreign relations’ chief, Rasmi Abu Issa, and a member of its Political Bureau, Abd Alaziz al-Minawi.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed hitting significant PIJ terror targets in Syria. “The IDF on Thursday confirmed the strikes on several PIJ buildings and command centers, calling them a “significant blow” to the Gaza Strip-based Palestinian terror group and its operatives,” The Times of Israel reported.
Two senior #IRGCterrorists-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives were killed in a strike by #Israel in Syria on Thursday. PIJ's foreign relations chief Rasmi Abu Issa and Abdel Aziz Minawi, a member of PIJ’s political bureau, were killed in the strike in Qudsaya. There's… pic.twitter.com/DpsV6YbG8L
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) November 16, 2024
The terrorist group on Saturday admitted the elimination of its two senior operatives, the French news agency AFP reported.
“Two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) figures were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria on Thursday, a source from the Hamas-allied militant group told AFP Saturday,” France24 TV reported. “Abdel Aziz Minawi, a member of PIJ’s political bureau, and the group’s foreign relations chief Rasmi Abu Issa were killed in the strike on Qudsaya, in the Damascus area this week, said the source.”
The Iran-backed Islamic Jihad (PIJ) planned and executed the October 7 massacre alongside Hamas. Following October 7, 2023, the jihadist group has been carrying out terrorist operations against the IDF troops in Gaza and firing rockets at southern Israeli towns and cities.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) was conducting further raids on PIJ bases in Syria. “Israel continued to target PIJ headquarters in Damascus on Friday,” the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. “IAF fighter jets struck commander centers and terrorist infrastructure belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Syria’s Damascus, the military confirmed on Thursday afternoon.”
After Israel began hitting terrorist targets in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, Iran-backed terror groups are relocating their leadership and infrastructure to neighboring Syria. Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes destroyed more Iranian-linked weapons depots and terrorist supply routes in Syria.
IDF eliminates Islamic Jihad rocket commander in northern Gaza
The PIJ suffered another blow as the Israeli military announced the elimination of its northern Gaza-based rocket commander and the members of his terrorist unit. “In the Gaza Strip, with the intelligence direction of the ISA [Israeli Security Agency], the IAF [Israeli Air Force] struck and eliminated the terrorist Alkaman Abed Elslam Khalil Anbar, responsible for fire support in the Islamic Jihad’s Gaza City Brigade,” the military announced.
“Anbar was responsible for the Islamic Jihad’s rocket fire array from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory and was a significant figure in the organization’s weapons manufacturing processes,” the IDF added. “He was eliminated alongside other Islamic Jihad terrorists who fired rockets toward the State of Israel and IDF troops.”
IDF strike liquidating a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist squad in Gaza, including top PIJ commander Alkaman Abed Elslam Khalil Anbar pic.twitter.com/1OMllKx5Y1
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 16, 2024
The IDF continued operations against terrorists in the Hamas strongholds of Jabaliya and Rafah. “Over the past day, the troops eliminated terrorists in close-quarters encounters and in directed aerial strikes and located large quantities of weaponry, including explosive devices, machine guns, and additional terrorist equipment,” the military disclosed Saturday.
Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah targets in Beirut, southern Lebanon
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) “struck a military compound containing several launchers from which numerous rockets were fired toward the Western Galilee area over the past week,” the Israeli military said Saturday.
“IDF troops continue their limited, localized, and targeted operational activity in southern Lebanon. Over the past day, the troops located and dismantled weapons storage facilities, tunnel shafts, and terrorist infrastructure sites and eliminated a number of terrorists during encounters and aerial strikes,” the military added.
“A short while ago, the IAF conducted a series of intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah terror targets in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in Beirut, where Hezbollah has systematically embedded its terrorist infrastructure amidst the Lebanese civilian population, cynically exploiting them as human shields,” the IDF announced Saturday morning. “Among the targets struck were a weapons storage facility, a command center, and Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure.”
The IDF says it carried out intelligence-based strikes against Hezbollah in Beirut's Dahieh district earlier today. Among the sites struck was a Hezbollah command center, the IDF said. pic.twitter.com/3rno32yPjg
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) November 15, 2024
The Israeli Air Force was carrying out a sustained air campaign against terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon. “Over the past day, the IAF struck over 160 terror targets belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” the military said Saturday.
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My condolences to the BBC.
And to Cornell University students and faculty
How could you be so insensitive to the New York Times, CNN, Tucker Carlson, MSNBC, Candace Owens, Russia Today, Le Monde, The Irish Times and to say nothing of the teachers union? Do they not also deserve condolences for their loss?
And to democrats everywhere.
Do not marry a democrat. If you do, then your spouse will hold you responsible if a gang of thugs shoots you and kidnaps rapes your children.
And if you do happen to recover from the gunshot wound(s), your spouse will call you a criminal if you try to rescue your children from their captivity.
Nibble, nibble, nibble… hurray, hurray, hurray.
“Intelligence Based Strikes” I regret that it usually takes about 50 years for history to become clear and the technology obsolete enough for the truth to be revealed. Therefore I will probably never know.
I would absolutely love to know how the Israelis are working all this. However since I don’t want Hamas I hope nobody reveals it..
That part of the world, people are especially prone to sell each other out. That is probably how Israel is getting at all the top terrorists.
UNRWA is outraged and saddened by the untimely death of a few of its best and most loyal members. A day of morning has been announced and donations can be sent to UN HQ.
So far, by all accounts I have seen, Israel has been prosecuting a surgical but deck-clearing campaign that would make both William Tecumseh Sherman and Michael Corleone jealous.