By Becca Lower
There’s word of a new airstrike on Rafah on Sunday, just hours after Hamas lobbed rockets from Gaza into Israel overnight, as we shared earlier.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirms that it launched the strike against a Hamas compound, and took out two of the terror group’s top commanders, Fox News Digital reported:
While the exact number of killed remains unclear at this time, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it struck a Hamas compound in Rafah in which “significant Hamas terrorists were operating.”
The IDF, citing intelligence that it said indicated Hamas’ use of the area, said it carried out the strike “against legitimate targets under international law.”
Statements like that have become crucial for Israel, just days after the ICC, while accusing the Jewish state of war crimes, demanded that it end attacks in Rafah.
The report continued with details on who the Hamas leaders were and their ties to previous terror attacks killing Israelis:
IDF sources told Fox News Digital the strike eliminated Yassin Rabia, the commander of Hamas’ leadership in Judea and Samaria, as well as Khaled Nagar, a senior official in Hamas’ Judea and Samaria wing.
The IDF said that both men had perpetrated numerous terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in which Israeli civilians and soldiers were killed…
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