Israel launched its largest military operation in the occupied West Bank in years overnight Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that troops had killed five more militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including a senior commander of a Hamas-allied group, as eyewitnesses said the IDF operation there continued. Israel launched its overnight on Wednesday, and says it has killed a total of 14 militants since then.
The Hamas-allied Islamic Jihad group issued a statement Thursday confirming the death of its commander in the West Bank’s Tulkarem area, saying Mohammed Jaber, also known as Abu Shujaa, died during a „confrontation with the occupation soldiers“ in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.
The group said his killing would increase „our people’s steadfastness, resilience, and determination to continue“, as Hamas warned in its own statement that his death and others in the West Bank would „explode the volcano of anger in the West Bank.
