Tag Archive for Al Quds Brigades

Israel outs Iran for smuggling munitions to Hezbollah on commercial airline

 

Israel’s envoy to the UN, Danny Danon, sent an urgent letter to the Security Council, “The Iranian Al-Quds Force packs weapons, ammunition and missile technology to Hezbollah in suitcases and puts them on Mahan Air flights.”

By DANA SOMBERG/MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

Iran is smuggling weapons and ammunition to Hezbollah through commercial flights from the Islamic Republic to Lebanon, according to intelligence information revealed by Israel’s UN ambassador to the Security Council, which was cleared for publication on Tuesday.

UN Ambassador Danny Danon sent an urgent letter to the Security Council members in which he revealed the smuggling route from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to Hezbollah: “The Iranian Al-Quds Force packs weapons, ammunition and missile technology to Hezbollah in suitcases and puts them on Mahan Air flights.” Continue Reading »

Another Gaza terror-tunnel collapses, Another Islamic Jihad terrorist dead

 

In the latest in over a dozen tunnel cave-ins this year, Islamic Jihad reports of an Al-Quds Brigade terrorist recovered dead after a terror-tunnel in northern Gaza collapsed.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in the latest in a series of such incidents.

The collapse occurred in the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement, without providing further details.

It identified the terrorist killed as Ibrahim Hassan Al-Masri, 28, of Al-Quds’s northern command.

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The northern Gaza Strip, controlled by the radical Islamist terror organization Hamas, shares a border with Israel. Continue Reading »

Israel Retaliatory Airstrike Kills 2 Islamic Jihad Terrorists in Gaza

  

Palestinians report that 2 members of Islamic Jihad group Al-Quds Brigades, were killed in latest airstrike in Gaza.

By Elad Benari

 

Two terrorists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza late Sunday, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reports.

Aftermath of IAF strike in Gaza (archive)

Aftermath of IAF strike in Gaza (archive) – Photo: Reuters

According to the report, two members of Al-Quds Brigades, the so-called “military wing” of the Islamic Jihad group, were killed as Israeli warplanes struck the al-Bureij neighborhood.

The two were identified by Ma’an as Mazen al-Hadba and Marwan Salim.

Further details were not immediately available.

An IDF spokeswoman quoted by Ma’an said the Israel Air Force had “managed to prevent a rocket attack” from central Gaza. Continue Reading »

Al-Qaida group claims responsibility for border attack

Saudi, Egyptian citizen purportedly launched the attack that killed an Israeli worker, video shows; over 30 rockets fired from Gaza in past day, at least six Palestinians killed in IDF strikes on the Strip.

 

 

An al-Qaida-linked group calling itself “The Shura Council of Mujahideen in the Holy Land” claimed responsibility Tuesday for a cross-border-attack along Israel’s southern border that killed one construction worker on Monday.

Reuters obtained a video showing a group of masked men who claimed responsibility for the attack. The masked men used Islamic slogans, pledging to liberate the Holy Land from what they termed Jewish control.

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