These strikes come less than a week after the announcement of a truce obtained following Egyptian mediation after a new escalation of violence between the Israeli army and the Islamic Jihad.
At least nine people died on Tuesday before dawn in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, according to the Ministry of Health of this territory under the control of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
The Israeli army announced for its part that it had carried out strikes on “Islamic Jihad targets” in the Gaza Strip.
Islamic Jihad targeted
The airstrikes come less than a week after an Egyptian-mediated truce was announced following a new escalation of violence between the Israeli army and Islamic Jihad following the death in a Israeli prison of a leader of this Islamist movement on hunger strike for three months.
The Israeli army announced in press releases that it had “targeted” three leaders of Islamic Jihad, a movement described as “terrorist” by Israel: two in the Gaza Strip, Jihad Ghannam, and Khalil Al-Bahtani, and another in the West Bank , Tareq Ezzdine.