An Iran-backed terrorist organization has fired scores of rockets against Israeli targets in retaliation for the assassination of one of their top commanders in Gaza, according to reports.
“We are heading to battle, and there is no truce after this airstrike,” the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Ziad al Nakhalah said Friday. “The results of this war will be in favor of the Palestinian people. The enemy should expect a battle, not a truce.”
"We don't know how this will play out … but this could take time,” Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told local media. “This could be a lengthy round [of conflict] and a hard one."The duration and intensity of this furor likely will depend on whether PIJ can induce Hamas to join the fight, according to a close observer of the militant groups who thinks that PIJ can only sustain a fight for a few days in the absence of reinforcements.
The violence reportedly traces back to the arrest of a militant named Bassem Saadi, the leader of PIJ’s West Bank operations. His arrest was followed by the killing of PIJ commander Tayseer al Jabari in a bombardment that the Israel Defense Forces characterized as necessary to prevent a terrorist attack.
That operation drew a rebuke from a senior U.N. official, who said he was “deeply concerned” by the killing and also lamented the death of a 5-year-old girl who reportedly was killed in the attack on Jabari.
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