Senior Islamic Jihad commander killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Who was Iman Zareb?

A senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander who led the terror group’s elite forces in Israel during the October 7 massacre was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, April 4, defense officials said.

Iman Zareb, a senior figure in the Iran-backed group’s Rafah Brigade, was killed along with two other Islamic Jihad fighters in an Israeli shelling of a “hideout apartment” in Rafah, the IDF said in a statement. Israel Defense and Shin Bet Security Service. statement, writes the Israeli publication Times of Israel.

According to Israel, Zareb has led efforts in recent days to prepare Islamic Jihad fighters to face Israeli forces once they launch an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, believed to be the last major stronghold of the Hamas terror group.

Aerial footage released by the military showed a building exploding after being hit by a bomb dropped by a fighter jet.

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Palestinians said three bodies were pulled from the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Rafah, but there was little coverage of the attack or its aftermath.

On October 7, Zareb led a group of Islamic Jihad commandos in an attack on Kibbutz Sufa and a nearby military post, the IDF said.

At least 10 people were killed when terrorists on motorcycles infiltrated the kibbutz and the adjacent post, which is about 2.5 kilometers from the eastern edge of Rafah. During the attack, the terrorists went to the house and opened fire on people and at least one ambulance with machine guns and grenades.

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