Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Israeli army announced the assassination of the commander of the southern Gaza Strip in the Islamic Jihad movement, Khaled Mansour, on Sunday, and published a video of the process of targeting him in an air raid.
“This is Khaled Mansour, the commander of the southern region of Islamic Jihad who was responsible for several terrorist attacks once morest Israeli civilians and soldiers,” the Israeli army said in a statement posted on its official Twitter page.
The Israeli army added, “Last night, he was targeted and killed by an IDF fighter,” and concluded: “We will continue to confront any threat to Israel.”
For his part, the Israeli army spokesman for Arab media, Avichai Adraee, published the video clip, which he said showed the targeting of Mansour, and commented on it by saying: “This is how the prominent leader of Islamic Jihad, called Khaled Mansour, commander of the southern Gaza Strip region in Jihad, whose rank is equivalent to the rank of Jihad, was eliminated.” Gen”.
Adraei continued, “It seems that two other prominent terrorist activists were eliminated in the operation, the commander of the Rafah Brigade and the so-called Ziyad al-Mudallal, a member of the Jihad Command,” he said.
It is noteworthy that Mansour is the second Islamic Jihad commander to be assassinated by Israel in the military escalation in the Gaza Strip following the commander of the Al-Quds Brigades, Taysir Al-Jabari, who was assassinated on Friday.
