The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated in an announcement on Friday that it had killed a senior commander of the Palestinian militant group Mujahideen Brigades in central Gaza.
The IDF added that the commander, Ali Saadi Wasfi al-Agha, served because the army commander of the group’s southern Gaza brigades and was slated to switch the top of the group, Assad Abu Sharia, who was killed by the IDF and Israel’s Shin Guess home safety company earlier this month.
The Israeli military added that al-Agha was accountable for the burial in Khan Younis of the kidnapped Israeli couple Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein, whose our bodies had been lately recovered from Gaza by Israeli forces.
Al-Agha additionally orchestrated assaults towards Israelis each in Israel and the Gaza Strip, recruiting operatives for that function, the IDF claimed, Xinhua information company reported. In accordance with the assertion, he was killed on Monday in a joint operation by the IDF and Israel’s Shin Guess, whereas he was in a hideout in central Gaza.
The IDF stated that over the previous week, it had carried out greater than 300 strikes within the Gaza Strip. The targets included militants, army buildings, weapons depots, and anti-tank and sniper positions.
In the meantime, a fighter from the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed on Friday morning in an Israeli airstrike that focused a automobile in southwestern Lebanon, based on Lebanese state media and a safety supply.
“A hostile drone targetted a automobile on the Abbasiya highway on the city’s forest junction,” leading to one fatality, Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company reported, including that ambulances have rushed to the scene.
A Lebanese safety supply instructed Xinhua that the sufferer was a Hezbollah militant named Mohammad Khader Al-Husseini, from the city of Jannata within the Tyre District.
“One other Hezbollah militant, named Ahmad Ghazi Ali from the village Houla, was killed Thursday afternoon in an Israeli drone strike on Houla in southeastern Lebanon,” the supply added.
These developments come regardless of a ceasefire settlement between Hezbollah and Israel, brokered by the USA and France on November 27, 2024, which ended over a 12 months of hostilities sparked by the Israel-Hamas battle within the Gaza Strip.