After the assassination of the senior Islamic Jihad, the commander of the southern region in the Gaza Strip, Khaled Mansour, who, among other things, was responsible for the attack in 2010 in which the late Major Eliraz Peretz and the late First Sergeant Ilan Sviatkovski were killed - Eliraz's mother reacts , educator Miriam Peretz.
"There is no joy in my heart on this day, which is a day of national destruction and also a day of personal destruction," she says in a conversation with "Israel Hayom", "but there is great gratitude to the security forces and great pride for closing the circle. On this day, Tisha B'av, I remember walking through the premises of I lived that the women would go out on Tisha B'Av to the street and stand in a circle and each one laments her personal sorrow.
The two exterminated, Khaled Mansour and Taysir Jabari,
"So this is not a day of joy, but a day of thanks. Thanks to the IDF soldiers, to the security forces, thanks to the residents of the Gaza Strip and to the people who live very complex lives there.
When we walk around our homes, they are in shelters not one day or two.
"Thanks to the IDF forces who knew how to get to that terrorist and eliminate him.
I admit and am proud that our nation is a nation that remembers: we remember a destruction that happened 2,000 years ago and we also remember those who hurt us.
And we say to the enemy, 'Know that we will reach you, even if it takes 12 years.
We remember and we will get to you.
"This is how you build a sense of victory that the enemy knew that maybe years would pass, but the blood of Eliraz and the blood of Ilan the soldier who fell with him and the blood of the other IDF soldiers and the civilians, are not in vain.
"Eliraz my son was born on the evening of Tisha B'Av and this year the circuits were closed twice for me. Once I had a granddaughter born on the exact Hebrew date that Eliraz was born, and the second thing is the injury to the person who hurt Eliraz. There is a correction in that. That jihadist did not just intend to kill Eliraz. He He meant to break my spirit. He meant that we wouldn't go on. And I want you to know that this is our victory.
The late Uriel and Eliraz Peretz, photo: from the Facebook page of Miriam Peretz
"I want to tell him (the terrorist) that we are expanding our border in Gaza, establishing new settlements and continuing to raise new generations like my granddaughter and Eliraz's four children. They grew up and they continue to live in Israel. They are about to enlist in the IDF and they are carrying on the spirit.
He did not break our spirit - and that is the victory.
We knew that a day would come and we would reach it and I am proud of our security forces.
"What power the Jewish people have - the power of memory."
He was involved in carrying out terrorist attacks
Peretz, who lights a torch on Independence Day and was awarded the Israel Prize for Life, ran last year for the position of President of the State of Israel, and lost to Yitzhak Herzog.
She also lost her eldest son Lieutenant Uriel who was killed in an ambush in southern Lebanon in November 1998.
As mentioned, last night fighter jets hit Mansoor last night.
In addition, apparently, two other operatives were foiled: the commander of the Rafah Brigade in the Islamic Jihad, Khattab Emazi, and Khaled Mansour's deputy, and Ziad Medalle.
According to the IDF spokesman, in the last few days Mansor worked to launch anti-tank attacks and fire a steep trajectory towards the territory of the State of Israel and was the planner and responsible for the attack that was planned in the Gaza Strip in the last few days, which was thwarted by the IDF.
Defeat of the commander of the southern area of the Gaza Strip in the Islamic Jihad Khaled Mansour // IDF spokesman
Over the years, Mansour was involved in carrying out many terrorist attacks, including the attack in July 2004, in which the commander of the southern brigade in the Gaza Division, the late Lt. Col. Pinky Zoertz, was moderately injured. Mansor led hundreds of rocket fire attacks against the territory of the State of Israel, ranging from launching mortar bombs to shooting Advanced rocket weapons.
Starting in 2015, Mansour served as the commander of the northern area in the Gaza Strip.
After that, he moved to the position of commander of the southern area.
He was responsible, among other things, for the tunnels case and commanded the terrorist organization's rocket unit.
Also during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation, in May 2021, Mansour carried out heavy rocket fire towards the Israeli rear, mainly towards the cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon and worked to implement offensive plans against IDF forces and Israeli citizens.
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