Israel conducts over 200 strikes in Gaza within days, kills Islamic Jihad member

Xinhua
21 Apr 2025, 19:15 GMT+10

This photo released by Israel Defense Forces on April 20, 2025 shows Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Xinhua)

JERUSALEM, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Israel's military said on Monday that it carried out more than 200 airstrikes across the Gaza Strip over the past three days, killing a member of the Islamic Jihad movement.

The military said the strikes targeted militant infrastructure, militant cells, rocket launch and sniper positions, weapons depots and command centers.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in east of Gaza City, on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)

It identified the killed fighter as Ahmad Mansour, who it said participated in the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and later directed rocket fire during the ongoing war.

In Rafah's Shabura and Tel al-Sultan neighborhoods, Israeli troops dismantled "terrorist infrastructure" and uncovered a cache of grenades, ammunition and other military gear.

This photo released by Israel Defense Forces on April 18, 2025 shows Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Xinhua)

Along the recently constructed Morag Corridor, which bisects Rafah from Khan Younis and the rest of Gaza, troops located weapons, destroyed Hamas infrastructure and killed several militants, the military said.

In northern Gaza, soldiers launched an airstrike on a building containing what was described as underground infrastructure and detected multiple militants. The army also reported dismantling Hamas sniper posts that had threatened its ground forces.

At least eight people were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday and dozens wounded, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

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