Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza, killing at least nine people, including a militant commander and a five-year-old boy.
Tel Aviv is bracing for retaliatory rocket attacks as another war in the region becomes more likely.
Israel said it was targeting Islamic jihadist extremist groups after days of rising tensions.
In the occupied West Bank, pressure mounted earlier this week to arrest high-ranking fighters.
Palestinian officials said at least 44 people were injured in today’s attacks. An Israeli spokesman said 15 terrorists had been killed but there were no final casualties.
“The Israel Defense Forces are currently conducting an attack in the Gaza Strip. A special situation has been declared in the Israeli stronghold,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Israel Army Radio reported that military reservists have already been called up in areas near Gaza that have been ruled by the extremist group Hamas since 2007.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad official described the Israeli army as the main coordinator between Islamic Jihad and Hamas in an attack by Taisir al-Jabal on various targets around the populous Strip.
Smoke billowed from the building where Al-Jabari was allegedly killed, with glass and debris strewn across the street, and ambulances headed to other areas.
The attack comes after Israel arrested Bassam al-Saad, a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic jihadist group, in a raid in the occupied city of Jenin earlier this week.
It then closed all Gaza crossings and some of the surrounding roads for fear of retaliatory attacks by the group, further restricting Palestinian movement.
“The purpose of this operation is to remove a specific threat to Israeli civilians and civilians living around the Gaza Strip,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement.
In an interview with the pro-Iranian Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhla vowed to retaliate for the attack.
“There will be no red line in this battle and Tel Aviv, like all Israeli cities, will fall under the rockets of the resistance,” he said.
An Israeli military spokesman said authorities expected a rocket attack on central Israel, but said the Iron Dome missile battery was operational.
He said plans to send fuel trucks into Gaza to keep the territory’s only power plant running were scrapped at the last minute when intelligence services detected movement indicating an attack on Israeli installations in a camp was imminent. rice.
The attack came as Egyptian officials attempted to mediate between Israel and Hamas.
Gaza, a small strip of land with around 2.3 million people living in an area of ​​140 square miles, has been a site of constant conflict since Hamas took control of the territory in 2007.
“We still haven’t restored what Israel destroyed a year ago. People can’t breathe and here Israel is attacking again for no reason,” farmer Mansur Mohammad Ahmed, 43, said in central Gaza.
Since 2009, Israel has fought five conflicts with Gaza. The most recent is the 11-day war in May 2021, when Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel.
Militant groups killed 13 people and Israeli airstrikes in the Strip killed at least 250 Palestinians.
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Source: Metro
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