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Israeli military admits killed Palestinian leader’s son in Syria

Israeli military affairs minister Naftali Bennett has admitted that Tel Aviv killed the son of a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in the Syrian capital last November.

On November 11, 2019, the Israeli military launched a strike on the home of Islamic Jihad politburo member Akram Ajouri in Damascus, killing his son Muadh and another person.

The attack coincided with a similar Israeli strike that killed senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in the besieged Gaza Strip, sparking a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the besieged enclave into the occupied territories.

In a statement, the Palestinian resistance movement blamed the attacks on “the Zionist criminal enemy”.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News on Saturday, Bennett said that “upon taking office, we eliminated Baha and indeed attacked Damascus.”

Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, including in the Golan Heights, most of them against what Tel Aviv claims to be the positions of pro-Syrian forces.

Syria has called on the United Nations to adopt necessary measures to stop Israel’s repeated acts of military aggression on the Arab country.

Israel has also been threatening Palestinians in besieged Gaza with a large-scale war, boasting that it would be worse than the previous wars. Palestinian resistance groups have said they are ready to confront any aggression.

Tensions have risen in the occupied Palestine after US unveiled its so-called “deal of the century” which has been unanimously rejected by all Palestinian groups.

Gaza which has witnessed three devastating wars by Israel is under a suffocating blockade that has continued for 13 years. According to a Press TV correspondent, Gazans unanimously stress that resistance is the only mean to end this Israeli blockade.

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