Abu Hamza, spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades (the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad) said on Thursday evening that the resistance is determined to repel the aggression. "The march of resistance will not stop with any assassination," the Saraya spokesman said.

Israel assassinated a fifth military commander of the resistance in the Gaza Strip and said it was seeking to kill as many first-line Islamic Jihad leaders as possible. Israeli Army Radio reported, Thursday evening, the killing of an Israeli and the injury of 7 other people as a result of a rocket landing on Rehovot.