The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement said Monday that Israeli troops had detained three senior Jihad leaders in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
Jihad-related website, Palestine Today, reported that Israeli troops stormed the village of al-Sila al-Haretheya near Jenin and detained the three Jihad members.
Jihad said the three members were Sheikh Ahmed Tahayna, 56, one of founders of Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank. Sallah Zayood, 48 and Omran Tahayna.
Israeli Radio reported that Tahayna is a leader of Jihad's armed wing, Saraya al-Quds Brigades, and he had survived an Israeli assassination one month ago.
In developments in Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the Popular Resistance Committees and two other armed groups claimed responsibility for launching two homemade rockets at Israel's town Sderout and several mortar shells at Israeli posts near the borders between Israel and Gaza.
Israeli Radio quoted senior Israeli security officials as saying that Jihad was the organization that its militants fire most of the homemade rockets from Gaza into Israel.
Source: Xinhua
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