Israel says it killed the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the central West Bank in an airstrike yesterday.
Muhammad Abdullah was made the head of the Iran-backed terror group in the Tulkarem-area camp after his predecessor Muhhamad Jabber was killed in a gunbattle in late August, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The IDF says Abdullah was killed in a strike from the air alongside a second terrorist, without naming the second person.
The army says Abdullah was responsible for organizing the group’s activities, including “many attacks.” It accuses him of deploying explosives against Israeli troops.
The army says troops on the ground seized semi-automatic rifles and flack jackets found on the pair, the IDF says.
Official Palestinian Authority news outlet Wafa says troops also seized the bodies of the two, naming the second fatality as Awad Omar from the nearby town of Bal’a.
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