Overnight Wednesday the Israeli Air Force hit a vehicle carrying Ahmed Za’anin, an operative with the terror militia Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine which carried rocket attacks into Israel shortly after the funeral of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week. Following the strike which killed Za’anin, another terror militia, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, of which Za’anin was a former member, vowed revenge. “The blood of martyrs will not be in vain, but a curse that chases the occupier everywhere,” a PIJ spokesman told the Ma’an news agency. Meanwhile, another terrorist group calling itself Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (“Supporters of Jerusalem”) claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent rocket attacks on Eilat from the Sinai Penninsula. “Jews must understand that our war with the enemy inside will not make us forget the prime enemy of the [Muslim] nation, who occupies the land and defiles the sacred places,” Ansar said in a statement. “Jews will see things they do not like.” Read More
