A military official of the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood was killed on the morning of Thursday, July 18, by an Israeli drone strike in the eastern Bekaa plain. This incident marks the resumption of clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli front after a relative respite due to the celebration of Ashura, the most important Shiite religious commemoration. This date marks the death in 680 of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
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With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh
Mohammad Jebara is a military official of Jamaa Islamiya, the branch Lebanese of the Muslim Brotherhood, allied with Hamas. He was killed in a drone strike Israeli in a town called Ghazzé, in the eastern Bekaa plain, 50 kilometers from the border with Israel.
The Sunni Jamaa Islamiya joined Hezbollah a few days after the Shiite party opened the Lebanese-Israeli front. in support ” to the Gaza Strip. This group is mainly active in the eastern part of the border, in Sunni localities located in the foothills of the Syrian Golan, occupied and annexed by Israel. It has claimed responsibility for several anti-Israeli attacks, particularly rocket attacks on the Upper Galilee.
At least four other leaders of this Sunni group have been killed since October 8 in Israeli strikes carried out far from the front lines. On June 28, the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah received the Secretary General of the Jamaa Islamiya, Sheikh Mohammad Takkouche. The two men discussed ways to strengthen military cooperation on the Lebanese-Israeli front.
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