The IDF killed Islamic Jihad rocket commander Ali Ghali around 1:00 a.m. early Thursday, and his deputy, Ahmed Abu Daka, around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
As of Thursday night, Hamas continued to say it was running a joint operations room with Islamic Jihad, but IDF intelligence maintained its position that Hamas was overwhelmingly staying out of the fighting.
Although Islamic Jihad had not fired any rockets since 11:55 p.m. Wednesday night and fired only around 40 more rockets through most of Thursday, not long after Daka was killed, the terror group launched another barrage.
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, IDF chief spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari had said that Iron Dome had shot down approximately 95% of rockets. READ MORE
