Israeli air strike kills missile commander in Gaza
Source: BBC
Israeli air strike kills missile commander in Gaza
11 May 2023
By Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza City & Antoinette Radford in London
BBC News
A pre-dawn Israeli air strike on has killed a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander and two other militants in Gaza.
The Israeli military said they were killed in a hit on an apartment on the fifth floor of a building near Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
On Wednesday militants in Gaza fired more than 500 rockets at Israel.
The Israeli military hit more than 130 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65553728
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