IDF kills Wednesday top Hamas commanders in joint operation with the Shin Bet, including close operatives to Mohammed Deif.
By ANNA AHRONHEIM, TZVI JOFFRE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MAY 13, 2021 10:16
The IDF carried out a series of bombing strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, destroying the terror group’s central bank, internal security headquarters as well as the home of a top Hamas commander.
The IDF said that it destroyed the buildings in a series of airstrikes across Gaza throughout the pre-dawn hours of Thursday.
Caption: The expansive operation by the IDF to take out weapon warehouses in the Gaza Strip, May 11, 2021.
One target was the home of Iyad Tayib, a top Hamas commander who oversaw a number of battalions. The IDF said that the home was being used for terrorist purposes. In addition, the IDF bombed a building that, it said, was used as Hamas’s central bank as well as a force that the Israeli military said belonged to Hamas’s navy unit.
Content retrieved from: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-striking-gaza-in-response-to-rocket-barrage-directed-at-jerusalem-667776.