Israel eliminated a Palestinian Islamic Jihad military leader before dawn Thursday in a new strike on the Gaza Strip, where its operations have killed 25 people since Tuesday, according to local authorities.
Islamic Jihad, which has fired several hundred rockets since Wednesday afternoon, causing no injuries in Israel so far, said that "Israeli assassinations will not go unpunished and (that) all options (were) on the table for resistance."
Strike in Khan Younis
In a statement, the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, announced that "Ali Ghali (...) commander (his) rocket launching unit (had) been assassinated in the southern Gaza Strip along with other martyrs." According to witnesses, the top of a building was destroyed by the Israeli strike in Khan Younis, and, according to Palestinian medical sources, two other people were killed with it.
They are a priori members of Islamic Jihad, the Israeli army said in a statement confirming that "fighter jets (had) targeted" Ghali while he was "hiding in an apartment in Khan Younis".