Israel defends targeting of Gaza building housing Turkish news agency

The Israeli military defends its targeting of the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency, which prompted outcries of condemnation from Ankara, saying the eight-story building was used by the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups to conduct terrorist activities.

“The structure that was attacked was used by Hamas’s West Bank task force, which is responsible for directing terrorist operatives in the Judea and Samaria region to create terrorist infrastructure and to pass messages for terrorist activities and for transferring money and logistical support in order to carry out terror attacks against Israeli civilians,” the army says in a statement.

The military says the building also housed offices of senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which were “used for terrorist purposes.”

— Judah Ari Gross

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— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) May 4, 2019