(JTA) — Israeli troops killed a senior Islamic Jihad operative in the Gaza Strip.
Salah Abu-Hassanein, a regional commander of the Islamic Jihad group in the Rafah area in the northern Gaza Strip, was killed late Thursday night in a strike that the Israel Defense Forces launched in cooperation with Israel’s Shin Bet security service, Army Radio reported.
An official from Hamas’ government in Gaza said Abu-Hassanein was killed along with his son, Abdulaziz Salah Hassanein.
Also on Thursday, a home in the Israeli city of Ashkelon was hit directly by a rocket from Gaza. No one was injured in the explosion.












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