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Palestinian Islamic Jihad head killed in airstrike in West Bank: Israel

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Israel’s military announced on Friday that it killed Mohammad Abdullah , the top commander of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in the Nur Shams refugee camp, located in the occupied West Bank . The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that Abdullah was “eliminated” on Thursday after Israeli aircraft struck the camp in Tulkarem .

The IDF reported that another “terrorist” was also killed during the operation, which also led to the recovery of M-16 rifles and vests. The second fatality was identified as Awad Omar from Bal'a, according to Wafa, as cited by The Times of Israel.

Abdullah became the commander of the Iran-backed group in the Tulkarem-area camp after his predecessor, Muhammad Jabber, also known as Abu Shujaa, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in late August. The Israeli army accused Abdullah of organizing various militant activities, including deploying explosives against Israeli troops.

In a related development, the IDF carried out precision strikes on October 9 against two Hezbollah sites in Beirut's Dahieh district. The strikes targeted the group's intelligence headquarters and a significant weapons manufacturing facility. The IDF shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating, "Take a look at how close a weapons production facility was next to civilian infrastructure in the Dahieh area." It added, "Overnight, we conducted a precise, targeted strike on this facility as well as a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in the area."

The Israeli military accused Hezbollah of embedding its weapons storage facilities beneath civilian structures, such as residential buildings, schools, mosques, and universities, thus endangering the local population. Israel said it issued evacuation warnings to nearby residents before the strikes.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry also posted on X, emphasizing the proximity of Hezbollah's weapons production facility to civilian infrastructure, describing it as “Hezbollah in one picture.” The ministry reiterated that the precision strikes were necessary to target these facilities due to their location within civilian areas.
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