PIJ's second commander to be killed by the Israeli aggression is Khalil Al-Bahtini.

Update: 7 were murdered including a 5-year-old girl, 40 wounded.

⋯ Casualties are said to have rose to 8, with 55 injured.

⋯ The Israeli army released footage of their targetted assassination of PIJ's commanders.

⋯ The Israeli Army activated the Iron Dome Batteries in the Central District (Tel Aviv).

- The municipalities of Yavneh and Ashdod announce the opening of their bomb shelters.

⋯ Al-Nasser Brigades mourns the PIJ commanders and announce they are ready to assist.

⋯ Context:

1- On 1 ⁠August, the IDF raided Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, and arrested a local leader of PIJ, Bassam Saadi. A bloody arrest that killed the 17-year-old militant Derar Al-Kafrini.

2- The IDF strengthened its economic siege on Gaza, closing all border crossings since 2 ⁠August.

3- The IDF launched today a military attack on Gaza: “Operation Breaking Dawn”.

🛑 No rocket/bullet was fired at Israel during all of this.

The IDF has been arresting Palestinians in the West Bank more intensively in these last few months.

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No truth to any reports about new Hezbullah deployment near the border with Palestine.

⋯ Israel Broadcasting Corporation:

"Planes at Ben Gurion Airport have been diverted to the north in fear of rockets being fired from Gaza towards Tel Aviv.

⋯ Israel, in its everlasting attempt to create sedition between the resistance, sent a message to Hamas through Egypt stressing that the operation is against PIJ only and that Hamas shouldn't get involved.

⋯ PFLP: "The enemy thinks that it is capable of singling out Islamic Jihad and splitting the unity of the resistance."

Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum: "We have a united resistance on the ground, and it cannot accept the shedding of Palestinian blood."

⋯ The Inspector General of the Israeli Police decided to raise the state of alert throughout the country, and announced the police is ready to call up 10 reserve companies from the "Border Guard".