The killing of Baha Abu Al-Atta in his home is likely to pose new challenges for Hamas group. Since 2014 war, Hamas has tried to maintain a truce with Israel.
On Tuesday, Israel slays a top commander for Palestinian militant group backed by Iran. The Islamic jihadist got hit in a rare targeted strike in the Gaza Strip. Israeli force accused him of carrying out a series of cross-border attacks and planning more.
The slaying of Baha Abu Al-Atta in his home is likely to pose new challenges for Hamas faction. Although. Hamas has tried to maintain a truce with Israel since a 2014 war.
The blast ripped through the building in Gaza City’s Shejaia district before dawn and killed one other person and a woman, confirmed medics. Moreover, two more were also wounded.
Witnesses confirmed that the Palestinian militants launched a salvo of rockets into Israel shortly after it. No immediate casualties or damage on the other side was reported. As a precaution, Israeli police closed some roads on the edge of Gaza.
The operation against Al-Atta was authorised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli military mentioned in a statement. Moreover, the Israeli military blamed him for recent rocket, drone and sniper attacks against Israel, and attempted infiltrations into the country.
The statement reads, “Abu Al-Atta was responsible for most of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s activity in the Gaza Strip and was a ticking bomb.” The Israeli military accused Al-Atta of planning “imminent terror attacks through various means”.
A statement was released by jihadists confirming the death of Al-Atta and referred to his struggle with Israelis as “heroic jihadist action”. Moreover, the statement mentions about Israel stating that “our inevitable retaliation will rock the Zionist entity.”
Islamic Jihad follows Hamas’s ideological commitment to Israel’s destruction. But the Islamic jihad followers have often chafed at Egyptian-led efforts to forge ceasefires with the Israelis unlike Hamas.
