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Israeli Iron Dome intercepts a drone fired from Lebanon shut to Ramot Naftali, on Aug. 21, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90
Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday eradicated a senior Palestinian terrorist whose job used to be to smuggle weapons from Lebanon into Judea and Samaria.
The Israeli airstrike focused and killed Khalil al-Maqdah as he used to be using in the Palestinian Mieh Mieh camp shut to the metropolis of Sidon on Wednesday amid ongoing intense fire exchanges following Israeli strikes on Hezbollah’s strategic weapon depots.
Per the Alma Be taught Center, al-Maqdah used to be a senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the militia fly of the Fatah event, which governs the Palestinian Authority.
His major actions, with his brother Munir al-Maqdah, had been desirous about working with the Islamic Modern Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s Lebanese dread proxy group Hezbollah to transfer cash and funds to terrorists in Judea and Samaria (the West Monetary institution), to boot to directing dread attacks there.
This morning (August 21), the #IDF eradicated Khalil al-Makdah while he used to be using in his automobile in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp shut to Sidon. Al-Makdah, a senior commander in the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, used to be the brother of Munir al-Makdah, who is moreover a senior… pic.twitter.com/It7CvWVPZL
— Israel-Alma (@IsraelAlma_org) August 21, 2024
“In March 2024, it used to be published that weapons had been smuggled into Judea and Samaria, and had been transferred to squads recruited and directed by the terrorist infrastructure of Khalil and Munir al-Maqdah in Lebanon,” the IDF acknowledged.
The military moreover acknowledged that the brothers worked with Javad Afari, head of Division 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Intelligence Division in the IRGC, and Asghar Bakri, commander of Unit 840, the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Power.
“Al-Maqdah’s elimination is critical as it marks the major time since the IDF began its operations in Lebanon that a Fatah-linked figure has been focused,” Alma wrote. “The operation moreover highlighted, once extra, the shut collaboration between Palestinian parts and Iran, aimed at smuggling evolved weapons to fortify the capabilities of terrorist organizations in the West Monetary institution.”
In Israel, commentators and journalists criticized the IDF for no longer emphasizing the ties of al-Maqdah to the Fatah event, led by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
The focused strike came amid a most modern flare-up in the combating on Israel’s northern border after Israel replied to a lethal drone strike that killed an IDF soldier by bombing Hezbollah’s strategic weapon depots deep within Lebanese territory.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah claimed accountability for 12 separate attacks on Israel, including a big rocket barrage in the morning and plenty of alternative smaller launches of drones and rockets all the way in which by the day, with out casualties.
Whereas Israel and the tell continue to appear forward to the response forecast by Hezbollah after the killing of its militia chief Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah politician wired that the dread group’s elevated attacks over the final several days weren’t the expected retaliation.
Ibrahim al-Mousavi, a member of the Lebanese parliament, instructed the Al-Jazeera channel: “The response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr is per chance no longer unclear or ambiguous, and everybody will acknowledge that right here is it.”
מטוסי קרב תקפו במהלך הלילה יעדי טרור של חיזבאללה ביותר מ-10 מרחבים שונים בדרום לבנון.
בין המטרות שהותקפו, מחסני אמל״ח, מבנים צבאיים ומשגר ששימשו את ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה להוצאה לפועל של מתווי טרור נגד מדינת ישראל pic.twitter.com/x2vO1zUBtO
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) August 22, 2024
The IDF replied to Hezbollah’s attacks by striking militia constructions in the tell of Kafr Kila, and struck a dread cell shut to Shaikhin after it had launched rockets on town of Zar’it earlier in the day.
Overnight, Israeli Air Power fighter jets struck Hezbollah targets in no longer lower than 10 areas in southern Lebanon. Amongst the targets had been warehouses, militia constructions, and a launcher primitive to assault Israel, in step with the IDF.
