![]() ![]() ![]() Islamic Jihad fired more than 100 rockets towards Israel last Tuesday in response to the death of Khader Adnan, a former spokesman for the militant group who became a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli detention policies. Tensions between Israeli and Palestinian forces have skyrocketed in the past week, after a prominent Palestinian detainee died while he was on hunger strike in an Israeli prison. His brother Mahmoud Ghali and his nephew Mohammad Mansour were killed alongside him at his sister’s house, the group said. Ghali had survived several previous assassination attempts, Islamic Jihad said. He became head of the unit and a member of the al Quds Brigades military council in 2019 when his predecessor, Khaled Mansour, was killed. Ghali supervised training militants in launching rockets and himself manufactured rocket launchers, Islamic Jihad said. ![]() ![]() He was born in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in 1975 and joined Islamic Jihad in the early 90s, they said. Ghali was one of the founders of the militant group’s rocket unit, with more than 20 years of experience with rockets, the Islamist group said Thursday.Īli Hassan Ghali was in charge of the unit in the militant organization’s al Quds Brigades when he was killed, they said. The source asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the diplomatic discussions. Meanwhile, talks about a ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad have stalled, a diplomatic source briefed on the talks told CNN Thursday. ![]()
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