Ghali supervised training militants in launching rockets and himself manufactured rocket launchers, Islamic Jihad said. He was born in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in 1975 and joined Islamic Jihad in the early 90s, they said. Ghali was one of the founders of the militant group’s rocket unit, with more than 20 years of experience with rockets, the Islamist group said Thursday.Īli Hassan Ghali was in charge of the unit in the militant organization’s al Quds Brigades when he was killed, they said. The source asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the diplomatic discussions.
Meanwhile, talks about a ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad have stalled, a diplomatic source briefed on the talks told CNN Thursday. Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building, following an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia in Gaza on Thursday. The IDF has been targeting what it says are Islamic Jihad operatives and infrastructure along the strip since Tuesday. ET), according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as Palestinian militants retaliated against ongoing heavy airstrikes from the Israeli military.
“When we arrived on scene we saw massive destruction, we immediately went in to search the apartments, in a third floor apartment we found an unconscious male victim with a severe multi-trauma injury, and could only pronounce him dead,” said Magen David Adom (MDA) EMTs Yedidya Hakmon and Tomer Pashko.Īn 82-year-old woman was wounded after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the yard of her house in the Negev region in Israel on Thursday, it said in a later statement.Īt least 547 rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel as of 2:30 p.m. Two further victims were evacuated with stress symptoms,” MDA said in a statement. “MDA Paramedics have pronounced one victim dead with severe shrapnel wounds, and evacuated 5 victims, including a 74-year-old male, and a 50-year-old male, two females in their 70s in moderate condition, and one in mild condition. The rocket hit a four-storey apartment building in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, and wounded five people, the Magen David Adom medical service (MDA) said. A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a residential building in Israel on Thursday, causing the first Israeli death after days of violence between the two sides that had already claimed at least 30 Palestinian lives.
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