A senior member of the Palestinian group Fatah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon Wednesday, prompting the motion to accuse Tel Aviv of attempting to begin a regional battle.
Fatah, the Palestinian motion primarily based within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, mentioned Khalil Maqdah was killed in a strike close to the southern Lebanese metropolis of Sidon.
The Israeli army claimed it focused the brother of Mounir Maqdah, who heads the Lebanese department of Fatah’s armed wing.
It accused them each of “directing attacks and smuggling weapons” to the West Bank and collaborating with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
In response, the Fatah motion, which is headed by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and rivals the Gaza Strip’s rulers Hamas, accused Israel of bidding to set off a wider regional battle.
Maqdah’s killing marks the primary such assault on a senior Fatah member in additional than 10 months of Israel’s genocidal battle on Gaza and cross-border clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The “assassination of a Fatah official is further proof that Israel wants to ignite a full-scale war in the region,” Tawfiq Tirawy, a member of Fatah’s central committee, advised AFP in Ramallah.
It got here solely hours after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left empty-handed after a tour of the Middle East aimed toward reaching a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas battle in Gaza.
Source: www.dailysabah.com