170 seconds of precision and fire: this is how the combined attack was carried out that shook the top of the jihad in Gaza
While the Air Force received the green light to eliminate Tisir Jabari in the apartment where he was hiding, a series of targeted countermeasures were carried out throughout the Gaza Strip, with the help of accurate intelligence, in less than three minutes.
According to security sources, the attack put the terrorist organization in a state of "shock".
This is how Operation Dawn was launched, step by step
Amir Bohbot
06/08/2022
Saturday, August 6, 2022, 08:28 Updated: 08:29
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On video: the IDF attacks targets of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip (photo: documentation in Arab networks and D.O.C.)
After several days of alertness at the Gaza border for fear of firing from the strip by the Islamic Jihad organization, yesterday (Friday) it happened.
Air Force fighter jets circled in the afternoon in the skies of the Negev and over the sea, vigilantly awaiting orders to carry out targeted countermeasures in combination with attacking additional terrorist targets.
At 16:16 the precise intelligence information was cross-referenced in the Shin Bet by the desk personnel, the coordinators of the organization who know the streets of Gaza well, the figures, the women of technology and the operatives who gave the signal to the presence of the commander of the Islamic Jihad in the northern Gaza Strip, Tisir Jabari, the replacement of Baha Abu al-Ata, who was eliminated in 2019, who is hiding in an apartment in the "Palestine" building in the heart of Gaza City. At the same time, information emerged about the whereabouts of Abdullah Kadum, the deputy commander of the anti-tank formation in Jihad, who was riding a motorcycle in the heart of the Shajaya refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Within 170 seconds, a series of countermeasures were carried out, with the main difficulty not only identifying the locations of the targets at the same time and verifying them using several different sources, but also timing them to reduce incidental damage and prevent injury to those not involved.
IDF attack in the Gaza Strip, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
In the first minute, the fighter jets of the air force attacked the apartment where Jabari was hiding and killed him on the spot.
The wall of the room he was in collapsed onto the street.
In the second stage, they attacked the motorcycle on which Abdullah Kedom was riding.
Conflicting information was received regarding the success of the countermeasures, but according to preliminary information he died of his wounds.
At the same time, intelligence information was received led by the attack cell in the fire center of the Southern Command under the command of Col. Y., about two squads of Islamic Jihad operatives armed with anti-tank missiles, who are on their way to carry out an attack in the Khan Yunis area.
An aircraft also hit them.
In addition to this, in those seconds, as the third phase of the attack, the IDF attacked five Islamic Jihad positions along the perimeter fence and killed Islamic Jihad operatives who were acting as observers of IDF activity along the border line, and hit nine infrastructure targets, rockets and weapons depots .
This is how the IDF and the Shin Bet completed, within 170 seconds, an offensive opening flight that was very strict on the schedules, based on precise intelligence, which synchronized together the 'pit' commanders of the Air Force, the Shin Bet's operations chief and the fire center of the Southern Command .
The big challenge was to schedule all the targets in a very short schedule so that leaking information would not thwart the IDF's ability to hit one of the top officials.
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The senior officials of the Islamic Jihad who were killed in Gaza, Tisir Jabari and Abdullah Kadum (photo: official website, no)
A short time later, another aircraft began to inflict extensive damage on the infrastructure of the Islamic Jihad, but also injured and killed operatives who are responsible for the organization's command and control system, anti-tank missiles, and communication infrastructure, in a way that disrupted the organization's ability to carry out a rapid response. Therefore , security officials estimated last night that the dramatic attacks against the organization's senior officials caused the activists to go into a state of "shock" and respond with rocket launches only after about three hours.
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