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Report: Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesperson killed in IDF strikes
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
Abu Hamza, spokesman of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad terror group, addresses Palestinians and threatens Israel in a video message broadcast on March 29, 2019. (Screenshot: Al-Quds Brigades)
The Saudi channel Al-Hadath reports that the spokesperson for the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hamza, has been killed in IDF airstrikes in Gaza.
Additionally, the channel reports that Hassan al-Naam Abu Ali, a senior member of PIJ, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.
Earlier, reports indicated that Yasser Harb, a member of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza, was killed in today’s strikes. His five sons, who were members of Hamas’s military wing, were previously killed in battles with the IDF in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
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