For the first time since November, the IAF
targeted a terrorist on Tuesday.
Security forces have named the targeted man as 24-year-old Hitham
Mashal, a resident of northern Gaza. Mashal was active in multiple Salafi-jihadi
organizations, and was a weapons expert linked to last month’s twin rocket
attack on Eilat, security forces said.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security
Agency) and the IDF jointly carried out Tuesday’s air strike, which occurred at
10 a.m.
“Mashal dealt in the manufacturing, upgrading and trade of
firearms, particularly rockets and bombs, which he delivered to various terror
organizations for profit, and to promote terrorism against the IDF and Israeli
civilians,” the Shin Bet added.
Mashal provided arms to the Ashura
Council of Holy Fighters in the Environs of Jerusalem, a global jihadi
organization that fired rockets on Eilat and at the western Negev earlier this
month.\
“Mashal was involved in promoting and carrying out [the Eilat]
attack,” the Shin Bet said. “His activity was known to Hamas, which refrained
from stopping him.”
Faster, faster.
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