In what could be the most significant military development in Operation Guardian of the Walls so far, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday that it had killed a senior commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one of the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip.
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The announcement comes after hours of intense bombardments by terrorist groups on southern Israel, resulting in multiple casualties and even at least one dead Israeli.
Sameh Abed al-Mamluk was assassinated in an operation conducted jointly with the Shin Bet security service. Several other senior rocket officials were also killed, the IDF said.
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Earlier in the day Palestinian media reported on a targeted killing of two PIJ activists in Gaza City after they were detected by an Israeli drone that followed their cars in the dense neighborhood of Sujaiya.
The Palsetinians also reported two additional dead in an Israeli airstrike that resulted in two senior PIJ officials dead.
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