In this report from DAWN, there are details of the latest IDF/IAF strike on Gaza that killed two more islamic terrorists - the DAWN article doesn't have the confirmation from the IDF that Israel did conduct that strike but it has been confirmed.
It's truly wonderful to see the Israelis taking the upper hand in first strike offensive on what seems to be some reassembling of the worst militant terrorists in Gaza. The signal should be pretty plain to Hamas and all the other gangs in Gaza that now isn't the time to start over again - unless they want another Operation Cast Lead on their hands.
UPDATE: I've added a new excerpt below the DAWN article from DEBKA - this has more details about the connection of the two dead terrorists to the Army of Islam in Gaza. These weren't two crew boys either - these were higher ups on the al Qaeda -linked Army of Islam.
Two killed as Israeli warplane targets car in Gaza
GAZA CITY: Two people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday on Wednesday, a Palestinian medical source said.
Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya confirmed two men had been killed in the strike, naming them as Mohammed Yassin and his brother, Islam, telling AFP they had died “in an Israeli strike on a car in the Samer area of Gaza City.”
The brothers were critically wounded in the strike, which completely obliterated the back of their car, and were rushed to Gaza City’s Shifa hospital where they both died shortly afterwards.
A witness told AFP he saw an Israeli warplane fire at a white car in the city centre.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the raid, which was the fourth air strike on Gaza within two weeks.
On November 3, Israeli warplanes fired a missile at another car in Gaza City, killing Mohammed al-Nemnem, a senior militant with the Army of Islam, a radical group that espouses an ideology similar to Al-Qaeda.
The army confirmed the strike, describing Nemnem as a “ticking bomb” in what appeared to signal a return to the army’s policy of targeted killings.
A month earlier, Israel admitted targeting another militant in an air strike on Gaza City but the man escaped unharmed.
Israel strike in Gaza kills two Al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam chiefs
Just two weeks after Mohammed Namnam was killed in a combined Israel-US-Egyptian targeted assassination in Gaza City, an Israeli airborne missile struck again Wednesday, Nov. 17, and killed two more commanders of the Al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam. debkafile's counter-terror sources name them as brothers, Islam Yasin and Muhammad Yasin. They were in the middle for preparations for a new wave of terrorist attacks in Sinai aimed at hitting US military targets and kidnapping Israelis vacationing in Sinai for ransom in Gaza.
Our military sources add that the Israeli missile hit the Subaru car in which they drove in the center of Gaza City. That the preparations continued after Namnam's death is a measure of Al Qaeda's determination to bring its plans forward. The Yasin brothers worked according to the original plan which was due for imminent execution - only adding more targets. They were plotting to abduct Israeli holidaymakers in Sinai and spirit them to the Gaza Strip through Hamas's arms smuggling tunnels. Our sources note that the Army of Islam also took part in Hamas's abduction of Gilead Shalit more four years ago.
Israeli travelers in Sinai are warned they are still in danger and advised to leave.
The plot included an attack on the Multinational Force and Observers North Base base under US command at El Gorah, 37 kilometers southeast of the Sinai port of El Arish.
The plot was revealed during the interrogation of 25 Army of Islam accomplices captured by Egyptian intelligence units at Sheikh Zuwayid in North Sinai. The high number of helpers points to the large scale of attacks the Al Qaeda-linked terrorists were planning.
In another counter-terror operation on the West Bank Wednesday, Palestinian Authority security forces in Nablus rolled up a Hamas terrorist network, whose members were getting ready for a series of suicide attacks.
debkafile's sources report that, contrary to other reports, this network had not targeted Jerusalem but had rigged a suicide bomb-car for the assassination of the Palestinian governor of the city Jibril Baker.
This attack was to have kicked off Hamas' operations against the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank.
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