IDF arrested "very senior" Hamas officials in Shifa but cannot disclose the names due to ongoing investigations, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
"Hamas is trying to present our war as a war against Muslims. This is a lie. Our war is against murderers of children who distort Islam to justify their barbarism," Katz explained.
An IDF statement Saturday night confirmed that the IDF and Shin Bet had conducted strikes in the area, saying that they had hit Islamic Jihad operatives and terrorist infrastructure.
Yasmine Znaïdi was sentenced to six years imprisonment in absentia in 2019 for embezzling funds for terrorist organizations.
In a joint operation, the IDF and the Shin Bet arrested a commander of a platoon in the Islamic Jihad in Gaza in December who was brought to Israel for questioning.
The IDF presented a copy of the document, in Arabic, which it said listed Hamza as a dual-hat terrorist-journalist for Islamic Jihad.
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The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization announced that two of their members were killed on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike.
The Alma Research and Education Center noted on November 29 that “Hezbollah’s Radwan unit is capable of invading the Galilee at any given moment.”
The meeting of the terror heads is part of a cooperation agreement by Iran-backed groups to coordinate against Israel.