GAZA CITY PRESIDENT Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday recalled Egypt’s ambassador to Israel after a series of airstrikes in Gaza killed a top Hamas militant and six other Palestinians.
Morsi decided to “recall Egypt’s ambassador to Israel,” his spokesman Yassir Ali said in a statement broadcast on state television. But an Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem denied the reports and said “the embassy in Cairo was functioning as normal.” Meanwhile, the Cairo-based Arab League has decided to discuss the Israeli attack on Gaza at a special meeting to be held either on Thursday or Saturday, a senior League diplomat said.
Six Palestinians including top Hamas commander Ahmed Jaabari were killed in more than 20 Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Hamas interior ministry said. “The Israeli occupation has carried out more than 20 air strikes on targets and headquarters of the police and security in the Gaza Strip. So far, six people have been killed, including commander Ahmed Jaabari,” interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said.
He said at least 25 people had been injured in the attacks. Two more people died in further strikes in Gaza City, with another two killed in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, sources said.
Hamas earlier confirmed the death of Jaabari. “The martyr is Ahmed Jaabari and his bodyguard was injured,” Ayman Sahabani, a doctor at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, said.
Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and the military confirmed the operation. “During a joint operation of the General Security Service (Shin Bet) and the IDF (army) today, Ahmed Jaabari, the senior commander of the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was targeted,” a statement from the Shin Bet said.
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