IDF says Islamic Jihad commander killed in Rafah

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 6th May.
Israel Defense Forces on Sunday has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.

IDF was quoted as saying on Saturday by news media reported that Zaarab directed the Islamic Jihad’s elite forces during the October 7 onslaught on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post bordering the Gaza Strip,

Zaarab had “commanded and directed” several attacks and over the past few days, IDF stated.

He led the Islamic Jihads’ preparations for combat in the southern Gaza Strip against the Israeli military, according to the IDF statement.

Zaarab, two other Islamic Jihad operatives were killed during the strike, the IDF added.

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