Israel Air Force Kills Gazan who Planned Sinai Border Attack

(Jerusalem Post) - Yaakov Katz and Yaakov Lappin The Israeli Air Force attacked and killed a Global Jihad terrorist in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Wednesday. The IDF said the man was one of the planners of the terrorist attack that emanated from the Sinai Peninsula on Monday. The defense establishment is particularly concerned with the development and growing presence of Global Jihad and al-Qaida-affiliated organizations in the Gaza Strip, some of which are made up of former Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas members. Others, it said, come from Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Hamas said the man was Ghalib Rmelat, a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades.


2012-06-20 00:00:00

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