Israel Army Agrees On Attacking Iran And Confirms Killing Key Hamas Figures
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
TEHRAN/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Israel’s army agreed Saturday on efforts to attack Iran after killing key leaders of Iran’s proxies Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Worthy News learned.
There is “a broad recommendation” within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to respond to Tehran’s recent attack when it fired some 201 missiles toward the Jewish nation, officials said.
Some missiles fired late Tuesday broke through air defenses to strike or land near at least three Israeli military and intelligence installations, footage reviewed by Worthy News indicated.
The soon-expected attack on Iran would come after the IDF killed Hamas commander Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, who led the group in the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-controlled West Bank, also known as Judaea and Samaria, according to Hamas and Israeli sources.
Oufi supplied weaponry “to a large number of terrorists” in the area, “planning and leading a significant amount of additional terror attacks in the West Bank,” the military said.
Jit Radwan, a key operative of the PIJ organization in the Tulkarm area, was also killed along with “ten more terrorists,” the IDF announced Saturday.
TERROR ATTACK
The IDF said he was planning” to execute a terror attack” soon, leading to “the express need” to eliminate him.
Others killed were named as Majdi Salem, Ayman Tangi, Basel Nafaa, Ahmed Jamal Obeid, Issam Kuzah, Atir Majdi Hussein al-Luisi, Anwar Muhammad Musa Masimi, Mahmoud Harwish, Maamun Anabtawi, and Rakkan Bilal.
At least 18 Palestinians were killed in the strike, according to the Palestinian health ministry and the Palestinian Red Crescent, but those figures were complex to verify independently.
The attack reportedly targeted a cafe in the Al-Hamam neighborhood, described by locals as a “refugee camp,” in the east of Tulkarm.
Israel’s strike prompted Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, to call for “a general strike” in the city.
Elsewhere, Germany said Friday the Israeli air strike on “a West Bank refugee camp” was “shocking.”
MANY CASUALTIES
The high number of civilian casualties in an Israeli air strike in Tulkarem is shocking. In the fight against terror, the Israeli army is obliged to protect civilians in the West Bank,” the German Foreign Ministry said on social media platform X.
Separately, Jordan’s Foreign Ministry condemned the strike as “escalatory” and accused Israel of “intentionally obstructing” international efforts for peace.
The comments did little to stop the spread of IDF, which said it currently faces combat “on seven” different fronts.
Alongside the continued fighting in Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli forces are engaged in operations in Lebanon, Iran, and its proxies in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, according to sources familiar with the situation.
The escalation of fighting came just days before the 1st anniversary of the October 7 attacks by Hama against Israel that killed some 1,200 people, including women and babies, while 251 others were abducted.
The bloodshed, seen as the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust, or Shoah, triggered Israel’s war against Hamas, which was designated as a terrorist organization by Israel and most of its allies.