MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Matthew 26:52b, “… for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.”

“Zuhair al-Qaissi, the commander of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a Hamas-aligned militant group, was targeted in a midday strike as his car rolled through Gaza City.

His son-in-law and another aide also died in the attack while Israel’s military said it killed two more militants in a separate operation.

The strike is the highest-profile in Gaza for months and sparked an immediate burst of retaliatory rocket fire as well as fears that the violence may escalate in coming days.

Militant groups responded by firing dozens of rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel, reportedly injuring four people.

Israel said al-Qaissi was plotting an attack similar to the raids in August last year, where four groups of militants crossed over the border from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and killed six civilians and two members of the security forces.

Al-Qaissi was reportedly also in charge of funneling money the Lebanese group Hezbollah to militant organisations in Gaza. His predecessor, Kamal Nairab, was killed by a similar Israeli strike seven months ago.

A PRC spokesman promised retribution for yesterday’s attack, saying: ‘We shall avenge our leader and the response, God willing, will be equal to the size of the heinous crime.'” Read more.