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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Joint statement by Gaza terror groups warns Israeli leaders ‘will pay the price’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.
Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group leader Jihad Ghanem during a funeral for him and his wife in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 9, 2023, following their deaths in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
The so-called Joint Operations Room of various Palestinian terror factions in the Gaza Strip says Israel and its leaders will “pay the price” for airstrikes this morning targeting senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
In a brief statement, the collective, which includes both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, says it mourns the 13 Palestinians killed in the strikes.
It adds that Israel bears full responsibility for “this cowardly crime,” and that Israel’s leaders will “pay the price.”
