Two Islamic Jihad leaders were killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday in Syria, the armed Palestinian group which participated in the October 7 attack announced on Saturday.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad said that Abdel Aziz Al Minaoui, “a leading leader” born in 1945, and Rasmi Abou Issa, “relationship manager [avec les pays] Arabs » born in 1972, had been killed “with a group of movement executives” in an Israeli strike Thursday against “offices and residential apartments”. Their bodies were removed from the rubble on Saturday, added the group, which expressed its “determination to continue the resistance”.
A little earlier, a source within Islamic Jihad announced to Agence France-Presse the death of the two leaders, specifying that they had died in an Israeli strike in the locality of Qudsaya, in the suburbs of Damascus, which targeted a building housing one of the group’s offices in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced Friday that twenty-three people, including Palestinian and pro-Iranian fighters, had been killed the day before in Israeli raids in Syria.
