Finally some good news.
SENIOR Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jaabari was killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City overnight.
UPDATE: Here’s the vid of the airstrike.
“The martyr is Ahmed al-Jaabari and his bodyguard was injured,” Ayman Sahabani, a doctor at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told AFP. A Hamas security source also confirmed Jaabari’s death, speaking on condition of anonymity.Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and the military also confirmed the operation.
“During a joint operation of the General Security Service (Shin Bet) and the IDF (army) today, Ahmed Jaabari, the senior commander of the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was targeted,” a statement from the Shin Bet said.
“In the past hour, the IDF targeted Ahmed Jaabari, the head of Hamas’s military wing, in the Gaza Strip,” the military added in a statement, saying Jaabari “was a senior Hamas operative… directly responsible for executing terror attacks.”
“The purpose of this operation was to severely impair the command and control chain of the Hamas leadership, as well as its terrorist infrastructure.”
Military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said the strike was the start of an operation targeting armed groups in Gaza following multiple rocket attacks on southern Israel.
“The IDF started an operation against terror organisations in Gaza due to the ongoing attacks against Israeli civilians,” she said on her Twitter account.
The killing of Jaabari sparked furious protests in Gaza City, with hundreds of members of Hamas and its armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, chanting for revenge inside Shifa hospital.
Outside, armed men fired weapons into the air, and mosques throughout the city called prayers to mourn the commander’s death.
Palestinian security sources and medics confirmed a total of four air strikes across Gaza during the late afternoon — two in Gaza City, one of which killed Jaabari, one in northern Gaza, and a fourth in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Got one! Go IDF!
wait…who are the good guys…
hizballah…..hamas….MB…?
i need a score card!
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@ waldensianspirit:
Gotta get ‘em all…
More and faster please!
They also killed another Hamas military commander today Raed al-Atar.
Israel needs to be careful. Hamas is MB and Egypt is MB. They need to prepare for a big scenario.
Rodan wrote:
Please nothing is worse then what they are undergoing now with scores of missiles being fired on them daily. If they had responded like this sooner it would have been over by now. Stop dithering and start acting like any nation with pride would act.
@ Speranza:
I agree, I am just saying Israel needs to prepare for a possible conflict with Egypt. That’s my point. They need to prepare for a worse case scenario.
Rodan wrote:
There is not going to be a conflict with Egypt over Gaza.
Any car swarm photos at LGF? lol
@ Speranza:
They are both MB, never say never. It’s better to prepare than get caught off guard. We are not dealing with rational people.
@ Speranza:
No, they are probably in mourning.
@ Iron Fist:
PokeHamas -- Gotta kill ‘em all!
I still say, stampede 10,000 Arkansas razorback hogs from the north end of Gaza to the South.
Problem solved.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Oink (that means ‘yes’).
@ Rodan:
I updated the thread with the airstrike vid.
huckfunn wrote:
I was about to do that. Thanks.
@ Speranza:
Oops! Somehow I thought this was a Rodan thread. My eyebones are still worn out.
Of course, all the news reports are saying Israel kills Hamas leader without mentioning daily rocket attacks on Israel. Screw the newswires! World continues to be upset at Israel’s existence while daily Muslim attacks everywhere on the planet go unnoticed. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
@ yenta-fada:
Turn Hamas into hummus.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
PIG!!!!
arkansas football cheer
IDF taunts Hamas via Twitter. Sweet!
We need a graphic of a western car swarm. Something like a bunch of low riders bouncing up and down.