Targeted Killings Begin as Security Cabinet Directs IDF to Intensify Strikes
Targeted Killings Begin as Security Cabinet Directs IDF to Intensify Strikes by Anna Ahronheim and Herb Keinon – Jerusalem Post
Shortly after the IDF announced on Sunday the targeted assassination of a Hamas commander responsible for transferring funds from Iran to Gaza, a security official said that the security cabinet directed the IDF to “intensify the attacks against the terrorist organizations in Gaza.”
The IDF spokesman announced the assassination of Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudri, which would mark the first time in a number of years that the IDF has used targeted assassinations against terrorist leaders in the Gaza Strip.
We just targeted Hamed Ahmed Khudari, a Gazan terrorist responsible for transferring Iranian funds to Hamas & PIJ in Gaza, helping fund their rocket fire at Israelis.
Transferring Iranian money to Hamas & the PIJ doesn’t make you a businessman. It makes you a terrorist. pic.twitter.com/WvGEB16r4h
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 5, 2019
Hamas field commander Hamed el-Hadary was killed by Israeli targeted airstrikes in Gaza, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reported on Sunday.IAF striked a vehicle where the 39-year-old was located. Three others were wounded.
According to IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis, Hadary’s targeted assassination was approved by the political echelon and was a “significant blow to the transfer of funds from outside the Strip to terror organizations.”
Manelis said that over 280 targets belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas were struck by IAF jets and tanks in retaliation for the over 600 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel…