Two Islamic Jihad leaders killed in Israeli attack in Syria on Thursday
Two Islamic Jihad leaders were killed in an Israeli strike Thursday in Syria, the Palestinian armed group involved in the Oct. 7 attack announced Saturday.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad stated that Abdel Aziz Al Minaoui, “an outstanding leader” born in 1945, and Rasmi Abou Issa, “relationship manager [avec les pays] arabs » born in 1972, had been murdered “with a group of movement executives” in an Israeli attack on Thursday against “offices and residential apartments”. Their bodies were removed from the rubble on Saturday, the group added, expressing its concern. “determination to continue resistance”.
A little earlier, a source from the Islamic Jihad announced to Agence France-Presse the death of the two leaders, stating that they had died in an Israeli attack in the town of Qudsaya, on the outskirts of Damascus, which targeted a building that It housed one of the group’s offices in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced on Friday that twenty-three people, including Palestinian and pro-Iran fighters, had been killed the previous day in Israeli strikes in Syria.
