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Of the over-500 rockets launched by Islamic Jihad terrorists towards Israel, more than 100 misfired or landed inside the Gaza Strip, killing four civilians.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
The Israeli military on Thursday accused Palestinian Islamic Jihad of killing four Gaza civilians in failed rocket launches.
The four were killed in separate incidents on Wednesday, as the terror group fired more than 500 rockets. Of those, the Israel Defense Forces reported, 108 failed to reach Israeli territory, either misfiring or landing inside the Gaza Strip.
In one of the cases, a rocket landed in Beit Hanoun, in the northwest Gaza Strip, killing 16-year-old Rami Shadi Hamdan and 51-year-old Ahmed Muhammad al-Shabaki.
Other failed launches killed 10-year-old Lin Belal Abd al-Salam Loh and 16-year-old Vizen Juda Aliyan.
During a previous military operation against Islamic Jihad in August 2022, the terror group fired some 1,000 rockets, of which 120 misfired. Fourteen Palestinians were killed by misfired rockets, raising widespread anger in Gaza.
Maintaining weapons caches, tunnels, launchers, and command and control sites in civilian areas is a war crime. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas and Islamic Jihad of deliberately embedding themselves in close proximity to homes, schools, hospitals and mosques.
The Israeli air strikes on Islamic Jihad leaders come against the backdrop of a rocket barrage fired by the terror group following the death of Khader Adnan on May 2. The imprisoned Adnan, a senior Islamic Jihad figure, died after an 86-day hunger strike. The terror group had threatened throughout Adnan’s hunger strike that it would hold Israel responsible for its member’s death.
Israel responded with surprise air strikes killing three senior Islamic Jihad commanders on May 9. The commander of the terror group’s rocket squads, Ali Ghali, was killed in an air strike on Thursday morning.
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Textbooks used by high schoolers at a PA educational institution in Bethlehem describe Jews as “dangerous” and “perverted in nature,” while lionizing “Jihad and martyrdom.”
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The European Union parliament linked rampant incitement in textbooks used in Palestinian Authority schools, passing a resolution that explicitly condemns the content as encouraging terror and leading to violence against Israelis.
The EU “deplores the problematic and hateful material in Palestinian school textbooks and study cards which still has not been removed,” the body said in a statement, emphasizing that this is the fourth consecutive year in which the PA has refused to remove the problematic content.
“Education and pupils’ access to peaceful and unbiased textbooks is essential, especially in the context of the rising implication of teenagers in terrorist attacks,” the resolution added.
Impact-se, an Israeli advocacy group raising awareness about the antisemitic and anti-Israel content in PA textbooks, welcomed the resolution.
“The Palestinian Authority lobbied hard in Brussels against this resolution, but found itself up against the hard reality of its hateful school curriculum and the anger and frustration of European Parliament members with a Palestinian national strategy of inciting schoolchildren to hate and violence on their dime, year after year,” Impact-se’s CEO Marcus Sheff said in a media statement.
“This strategy has murderous consequences. The resolution will also be noted at the European Commission and by Commissioner Varhelyi, who stated last week that EU funds can no longer be used to incite violence against Israel.”
A report by Impact-se noted that anti-Israel content is embedded throughout different areas of study within the PA curriculum.
Dalal al-Mughrabi, a female terrorist who headed a cell that murdered 38 Israeli, is depicted as a positive example of women’s empowerment.
“The Palestinians sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem” is a phrase in a basic grammar lesson aimed at young children.
An Arabic language lesson for 9th graders includes the sentence “when the [Muslim] nation is negligent in protecting al-Aqsa, then the Jews will dare to defile it.”
Textbooks used by high schoolers at a PA educational institution in Bethlehem describe Jews as “dangerous” and “perverted in nature,” while lionizing “Jihad and martyrdom.”
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The U.S. ambassador emphasized Israel’s “right to defend itself” against Palestinian terror rockets.
By JNS
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said on Thursday that Washington was working to broker a ceasefire to end two-plus days of fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
“Concerned about the continuing rocket launches today. We stand by Israel’s right to defend itself,” Nides tweeted, adding: “Working towards a quick deescalation.”
Reports surfaced on Wednesday evening that the sides had agreed in principle to an Egyptian-mediated truce, but that did not materialize.
U.S. and Qatari officials reportedly also were involved in the effort to restore calm.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday night updated his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on the latest developments with “Operation Shield and Arrow” against PIJ.
Gallant briefed Austin on the elimination of several senior PIJ leaders and detailed the imminent threats they had posed. He further noted “the IDF’s readiness for every operational scenario, including a prolonged, multi-front campaign.”
Gallant emphasized that PIJ had launched more than 500 rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilian centers since the conflict erupted on Tuesday morning.
Also Wednesday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with his Israeli counterpart Tzachi Hanegbi about the conflict in Gaza, according to a White House statement.
“Sullivan reaffirmed the administration’s ironclad support for Israel’s security, as well as its right to defend its people from indiscriminate rocket attacks,” the statement said. “Sullivan also noted continued regional efforts to broker a ceasefire, and emphasized the need to de-escalate tensions and prevent further loss of life.”
For his part, Nides is slated to depart his role this summer after two years in the job. He told senior staff at the embassy on Tuesday morning about his planned departure.
Nides cited personal reasons, having been away from his family since December 2021.
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Arab media reported that the long-range rocket was an M-302 that was smuggled to the Gaza Strip in 2009.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Arab media have reported that at least one of the rockets Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched at Tel Aviv Wednesday during the ongoing Operation Shield and Arrow was made in Syria and smuggled into the Gaza Strip, Maariv reported Thursday.
Called the M-302 (previously the Khaibar-1), the 302mm unguided rocket has a range of 90-150km and is considered more accurate than most of the airborne weapons in the Gazan terrorists’ arsenal.
It is manufactured by the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), the Arab reports said.
Run by a director-general who answers directly to President Bashir Assad, the SSRC is responsible for the research and development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons as well as missile technology. The center has been on a U.S. blacklist since 2005, and Israel has allegedly conducted several airstrikes against its facilities in recent years.
The M-302 was first used by Hezbollah against Israel in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, reportedly hitting Afula, Beit Shean, Hadera and even Haifa. According to the Arab networks, a batch of them was successfully smuggled into the Gaza Strip in 2009, and Hamas used them during 2012’s Operation Pillar of Cloud and Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. One of them hit Hadera, 112 km away from Gaza, during the latter operation.
Tel Aviv is 71 km (44 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
When PIJ sent a barrage of rockets at the region of Israel’s financial capital central Wednesday, the IDF successfully used its David’s Sling interception system for the first time to knock one of them out of the sky.
In 2018, the army had tried to destroy incoming rockets from Syria with the system, but one interceptor missed its target and the other was destroyed by the IDF itself for technical reasons when it was still in flight in Israeli territory.
In contrast to Iron Dome, which is made to hit short-range rockets, David’s Sling is for medium- and long-range airborne threats. These include rockets, tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles fired from 40-300km away, as well as enemy planes and drones. Its more complex interceptor also costs a lot more than the Tamir interceptor used by the Iron Dome, with a price tag of a million dollars versus $50,000.
Funded mostly by the U.S., it was developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Raytheon Technologies Corp., an American aerospace and defense conglomerate. David’s Sling is considered the “second-tier” of the country’s missile defense system, with the Arrow 2 and 3 systems protecting the Jewish state from intercontinental threats by using hypersonic interceptors that reach their targets above the atmosphere.
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The seven men approached soldiers after a clash in the town of Kabatia where two terrorists were eliminated.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
A group of terrorists turned themselves in to IDF troops in Kabatia near Jenin Wednesday after the soldiers had eliminated two Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) operatives in the town in a morning raid, Channel 12 reported exclusively Thursday.
Of the seven armed men, the report said, at least a few are also identified with PIJ, the Iranian proxy that Israel has been striking in the Gaza Strip since early Tuesday morning in Operation Shield and Arrow.
The report noted that it was unusual for terrorists in Judea and Samaria to surrender to Israeli forces. The most common practice is for operatives to hand themselves in to the Palestinian Authority’s security force, especially if they are being sought by the IDF. They are then held in custody in the prison in Jericho.
The men were immediately handed over to the Shabak for interrogation, with the initial suspicion that they had been on the way to an attack that was then aborted. The investigation will also check if they have been involved in previous attacks.
The pair of PIJ terrorists who were killed, Rani Walid and Ahmed Kamil, had approached the IDF forces in their car and then opened fire at the soldiers in addition to throwing explosives at them. The troops responded with fire of their own, killing the two, who had reportedly been planning to commit an attack in Israel, in support of the latest flare-up of hostilities between their terror organization and the IDF.
The IDF carried out several counter-terror operations in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday and Wednesday, due to the assessment that PIJ will try to stir up trouble for Israel on a second front while under attack in their center of power in Gaza.
During one of their overnight forays, one female soldier was hit by shrapnel and sustained a severe head injury when Palestinians in the village of Tubas exchanged fire with the troops. She was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, where senior neurosurgeon Dr. Avital Perry said that “the next few days will be critical for her.”
A total of 29 wanted men were arrested and a number of weapons were confiscated during the raids.
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