The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their air attacks on the Gaza Strip at dawn Thursday killing three Palestinians and injuring many others including women and children.
Israeli forces said they targeted the commander of a rocket unit in an air attack on a building in Gaza’s southern Khan Younis in the early hours of Thursday.
For its part the Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced the death of Ali Ghali commander of the group’s rocket launch unit in a pre-dawn strike carried out by Israeli forces in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Islamic Jihad has mourned the death of Ali Ghali in a statement.
“Al-Quds Brigades mourns its martyr the jihadist commander Ali Hassan Ghali also known as Abu Muhammad a member of the military council and the head of the rocket unit in Al-Quds Brigades who was assassinated in a treacherous Zionist operation at dawn today in Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip along with a number of righteous martyrs.”
Earlier Wednesday evening six Palestinians were killed in a new round of Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian health ministry said six people were killed on Wednesday a day after Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory left 15 dead.
Four of those killed on Wednesday were fighters with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine the group said.
In the most recent Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip at least 24 Palestinians including at least five women and five children as well as three leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement were killed.
