The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced this Monday morning the death of three of its members in an Israeli attack against a residential building in the Kola district of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in which it has been the for the first time since the beginning of its offensive that it attacks the heart of the city instead of the southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah.
The PFLP has indicated that the deceased are Commander Mohamed Abdel Al, member of the Front’s Political Bureau and head of the Military Security Department; Commander Imad Odeh, member of the Front’s Military Department and military commander in Lebanon; and Abdel Rahman Abdel Al. He also indicated in a statement that he “mourns the three martyrs of the occupation bombing” in the Kola area.
Subsequently, the Israeli Army indicated in a statement that Abdel Al, “PFLP commander in Lebanon,” and Odeh, “head of the PFLP military office in Lebanon,” were killed in the bombing.
Thus, he indicated that Abdel Al “led the organization’s efforts to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and was the person responsible for directing the organization’s terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria – the biblical name for the West Bank – “.
“In this context, he worked to establish a military infrastructure in Judea and Samaria to promote terrorist attacks against Israeli targets,” he said, before accusing him of “directing” a bomb attack in March 2023 and a shooting in March of that year. anus.
For its part, Islamic Jihad has mourned the death of “three heroes” who “became martyrs” in the “attack by a hateful Nazi Zionist in the center of the Lebanese capital.” “This atrocious crime perpetrated by the occupation forces represents a dangerous escalation of the ongoing aggression and confirms the enemy’s insistence on attacking all resistance forces wherever they are, without regard to humanitarian conventions,” he said.
Furthermore, he stressed that attacking his “comrades” of the PFLP “is part of the enemy’s continuous attempts to weaken the resistance forces”, but “the blood of the martyrs will be fuel” for their “firmness in the face of this aggression”, according to a statement collected by the Palestinian television network PalToday.
This attack takes place after the Israeli Armed Forces killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah on Friday in a “selective” bombing also in Beirut, and when the Lebanese authorities have confirmed the death of more than a hundred people during the last day, while Israeli planes continue bombing various points in the country.