Gaza - (AFP) - Tayseer al-Jabari , who was assassinated by Israel on Friday in an air strike in Gaza, is considered the most prominent military commander in the Islamic Jihad movement, and his assassination led to renewed fighting in the Strip.

Al-Ja'bari, who was born in 1972, was killed along with other Palestinians, including the five-year-old Alaa Qaddum, and more than forty people were wounded, during Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.

Israel said it had launched a "preemptive strike" on Islamic Jihad, in which Jabari was killed, whom the Jewish state holds responsible for recent attacks.

The Jihad movement and its military wing, the Jabari, were mourned.

The Al-Quds Brigades launched more than 100 missiles at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, in an "initial response", hours after the assassination of Al-Ja'bari, according to a statement.

Al-Ja'bari comes from a Gazan family, and in the eighties of the last century he joined the jihad movement in the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Al-Jabari assumed responsibility for the Operations Department in the Al-Quds Brigades, before becoming commander of the northern Gaza Strip regions, succeeding Baha Abu Al-Ata, who was assassinated by Israel in a raid on his home in 2019.

Following the assassination of Abu al-Atta, the Strip witnessed a violent military confrontation that lasted for about three days between the Israeli army and Islamic Jihad fighters, during which thirty-five Palestinians were killed, according to the Ministry of Health.

Al-Jabari had a "major role in supervising the implementation of many commando operations" against Israel, according to a source in Islamic Jihad.

Al-Jaabari, who holds a BA in Islamic Sharia Studies, was subjected to several Israeli assassination attempts, the most recent of which was during the May 2021 war, according to Daoud Shehab, media official in the Islamic Jihad movement.

The Secretary-General of the Jihad movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, vowed that "the occupation will pay a heavy price for its aggression that targeted the Gaza Strip," stressing that "there are no red lines after today."

Egypt and other parties are making intense efforts on both sides to stop this military confrontation and reach a calm.