Israeli air force strikes underground mosque complex in Jenin

The Israeli Air Force attacked the underground mosque complex in Jenin, RIA Novosti reports.

Jenin is a city in the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank, the administrative center of the province of the same name.

The Israeli army justified its attack by the presence of a “terrorist cell” in the complex.

“The Israel Defense Forces carried out an airstrike on an underground terrorist complex at the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin. In the mosque there was a terrorist cell of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who were preparing the upcoming terrorist attack,” the report says.

Israeli authorities claim that the mosque building itself was used to organize and carry out terrorist attacks.

On the morning of October 7, Israel was subjected to an unprecedented-scale rocket attack from the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, announced by the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement. At the same time, organized groups of Hamas fighters began to penetrate into Israeli territory, who easily overcame the first line of defense of the Israeli army, took hostages and caused serious damage. Israel later launched Operation Iron Swords, attacking the Gaza Strip and cutting off all supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine and fuel.

At the moment, the number of deaths from Israeli army strikes in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 4,100, including 19 Russian citizens, and the number of wounded has exceeded 13 thousand. In addition, Hamas militants may be holding up to 150 Israelis hostage.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the parties to stop all hostilities. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a resolution to this crisis is possible only on the basis of a “two-state” formula approved by the UN Security Council, that is, the creation of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem.