First woman in Politburo, high-ranking Hamas terrorist al-Shanti, is dead
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“Every member of Hamas is a dead man”, swears Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and for days the army has been targeting high-ranking members of the terrorist organization. Jamila al-Shanti, the first woman on the Hamas Politburo, has now died in an attack.
According to Hamas, the only female member of the Palestinian terrorist organization’s political cabinet was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. Hamas said Jamila al-Shanti, 64, was killed in an attack in Jabaliya, in the north of the Palestinian territory, on Wednesday night.
In 2021, al-Shanti, born in 1955, was the first woman to be elected to the Politburo – the terrorist organization’s highest decision-making body. The professor with a doctorate at the University of Gaza was the founder of the radical Islamic women’s organization Hamas and widow of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi. He died in an Israeli airstrike in 2004, during the second Intifada. He called the Holocaust “the biggest lie spread by the Jews.”
Since the start of the war, Israel claims to have killed several high-ranking members of Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. Among them are members of the military and political wings. Among other things, two commanders of terrorist units involved in the massacre in Israel were killed. Additionally, a commander responsible for security in the southern Gaza Strip was killed.
Hamas Economy Minister Jaad Abu Schmala and Sakaria Abu Maamar, responsible for international relations in the Hamas Politburo, were also named. Additionally, the head of Gaza city’s aerial surveillance was killed.
Netanyahu: “We will crush and destroy them”
The objective of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip is to eliminate Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas is the Islamic State, and we will crush and destroy it as the world destroyed the Islamic State,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night, in his first speech to members of the Islamic State. new called war cabinet. Every “Hamas member is a dead man,” he said.
Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and massacred hundreds of civilians. She also kidnapped dozens of people, including countless children and elderly people, to the Gaza Strip.