An Israeli Air Force craft attacked a terrorist cell in the western Samaria city of Tulkarem on Thursday afternoon, killing a senior terror leader.
The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) in a joint statement on Thursday evening confirmed that the IAF strike targeted Tareq al-Doush, a local commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a “military” arm of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.
“Over the past year, Tareq recruited several operatives who received Iranian funding from headquarters in Lebanon linked to the Maqdah family to promote attacks against Israeli targets,” the statement added, in reference to Munir Maqdah, a senior Fatah operative in Lebanon. (Read More)
