Islamic Jihad said that the commander’s wife was also killed in the attack, which the Israeli military said was a missile strike from a fighter jet. In recent weeks al-Ata had seemed increasingly like a marked man, judging from the reporting of Israeli military correspondents. Islamic Jihad and Hamas are uneasy rivals in Gaza. In the hours after the attack, masked militants of Islamic Jihad surrounded the two-story building where Abu el-Atta and his wife were killed. Mutassem Hilis, 23, a university student and a neighbor of the Abu el-Atta family in Shejaiya, said he was woken up by the blast.

Source: bd News24 November 12, 2019 07:38 UTC