GAZA, (PIC)
Politburo member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Talal Abu Zarifa was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City on Sunday evening.
Local sources said that the DFLP leader was killed along with at least two other citizens in the Israeli airstrike that targeted a house for Hamami family.
Abu Zarifa is a prominent Palestinian national leader that supported armed resistance against the Israeli occupation and enjoyed wide-scale relations with all Palestinian factions.
Local journalists had quoted Abu Zarifa as saying that he would not leave Gaza Strip. “We call on the people in Gaza to persevere and be patient and we will remain among them,” he said.
The International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People (Hashd) strongly condemned the Israeli assassination of Abu Zarifa.
It added in a statement on Monday that the assassination of the DFLP leader is a war crime and is part of the war of extermination launched by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian civilians.
Hashd called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility vis-à-vis the Israeli genocide in Gaza that has been ongoing for 220 days and force Israel to halt its crimes in Gaza and other Palestinian territories, provide international protection for the Palestinian people and bring Israeli leaders to account as war criminals.
