Local Israeli media reported on the 19th that the Israeli military killed three people, including a senior official of the Palestinian armed political faction Hamas, in a bombing raid in the Gaza Strip.
The Times of Israel newspaper reported that the Israeli military conducted an airstrike on Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, killing Rafat Abuhilal, the head of the terrorist group Popular Resistance Committee (PRC).
Citing media outlets in the Gaza Strip, the newspaper also reported that Hamas Politburo member Jamila Alshanti, the wife of deceased Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz Alantissi, was killed in an Israeli military airstrike.
In addition, Jihad Muhaizen, the head of the Palestinian National Security Forces, was killed in an Israeli military airstrike near Gaza City, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said in a statement that it carried out airstrikes overnight targeting military posts of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and that this was in response to rocket attacks targeting Israel.
VOA News
*This article references Reuters.
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2023-10-19 15:10:00
