Israeli airstrikes hit Rafah, kills two senior Hamas commanders
Rafah on Sunday night, killed two senior Hamas commanders after targeting a Hamas compound, reported The Times of Israel.
The Israeli attack followed Hamas's first rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in months, reported Al Jazeera.
The Israeli airstrikes claimed the lives of 35 people and two senior Hamas commanders, injuring a dozen others in a blaze caused in a camp housing displaced civilians, according to The Times of Israel, citing Hamas health authorities.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces said they had targeted a Hamas compound and eliminated two commanders in the terror group's ranks.
The IDF said it had struck a Hamas compound in the Tel Sultan area of northwestern Rafah where senior officials in the terror group were gathered, adding in a statement that «the attack was carried out against terrorists who are a target for attack, in accordance with international law, using precision munitions, and based on intelligence indicating the use of the area by Hamas terrorists.»
In a statement, the IDF said the strike had killed Yassin Rabia, the commander of Hamas's so-called West Bank headquarters, a Hamas unit charged with advancing attacks against Israel from or in the West Bank, and Khaled Najjar, another senior member of the unit, The Times of Israel reported.
Rabia, according to the IDF, «managed all of the military arrays of the West Bank headquarters… was involved in the transfer of funds for terror purposes and directed attacks by Hamas operatives» in the West Bank.
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