{"id":449004,"date":"2024-05-05T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/05\/islamic-jihad-commander-killed-in-gaza-airstrike-says-israeli-army\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:05:00","slug":"islamic-jihad-commander-killed-in-gaza-airstrike-says-israeli-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/05\/islamic-jihad-commander-killed-in-gaza-airstrike-says-israeli-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Jihad Commander Killed In Gaza Airstrike, Says Israeli Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Islamic Jihad Commander Killed In Gaza Airstrike, Says Israeli Army\" alt=\"Islamic Jihad Commander Killed In Gaza Airstrike, Says Israeli Army\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-05\/rg77pcv_aiman-zaarab-islamic-jihad_625x300_05_May_24.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Aiman Zaarab had &#8220;commanded and directed&#8221; several attacks, said IDF.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Jerusalem: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x1f534;ELIMINATED: Aiman Zaarab<\/p>\n<p>Zaarab was one of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade commanders, responsible for the Islamic Jihad Nukhba force&#8217;s attack on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post during the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Zaarab, two additional Islamic Jihad terrorists\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kh5l2Nk7rI\">pic.twitter.com\/Kh5l2Nk7rI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1786841588171157913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zaarab directed the Islamic Jihad&#8217;s elite forces during the October 7 onslaught on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post bordering the Gaza Strip, the IDF was quoted as saying on Saturday by Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Zaarab had &#8220;commanded and directed&#8221; several attacks, and over the past few days, he led the Islamic Jihads&#8217; preparations for combat in the southern Gaza Strip against the Israeli military, according to the IDF statement.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Zaarab, two other Islamic Jihad operatives were killed during the strike, the IDF added.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/israel-palestine-islamic-jihad-commander-killed-in-gaza-airstrike-says-israeli-army-5590748\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Aiman Zaarab had &#8220;commanded and directed&#8221; several attacks, said IDF. Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah. &#x1f534;ELIMINATED: Aiman Zaarab Zaarab was one of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[521885,47777,48139,141,258505,48821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}