According to a report by Doron Kadosh, the military correspondent for the Israel Defense Forces radio station, the Islamic Jihad sought to attach a Hamas member to each of its operatives in order to prevent Israel from eliminating its operatives. The goal was for the operatives of the two terrorist organizations to move around during Operation Shield and Arrow in pairs or stay near them, and this, as stated, with the aim of trying to get Israel to avoid the elimination of Jihad operatives under the assumption that the IDF was avoiding Hamas targets. Hamas reportedly, and based on the volume of Israeli assassinations of Jihadists, refused the request.

The report was released at the beginning of the week, along with the IDF summary of the five days of the "Shield and Arrow" operation. The summary emphasized that it was an initiated and targeted operation. "The operation was carried out after a period in which the Islamic Jihad destabilized and carried out the continuous shooting at the Israeli towns in the south of the country, and began during the opening of an initiative in which we thwarted three of the organization's top officials at the same time and in three different places. From the opening blow and throughout the operation, the IDF created an increasing achievement."

Israel’s “Shield and Arrow” operation against Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not only eliminated the Islamic Jihad leadership, but also sending warning to Hamas and Hezbollah that any confrontation with the IDF will be personally very costly.https://t.co/8uCGCwnEvE

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"As the shooting continued, the attacks continued, in the thwarting of senior officials, damage to infrastructure in production and intensification, as well as in the operational headquarters along with the significant effort of locating and thwarting squads and rocket launchers, mortars and anti-tank missiles," the army said.

It was also noted that "the operation brought to light the high-quality intelligence of the IDF and the Shin Bet together with the IDF's high operational capacity in locating and attacking targets accurately while avoiding harm to those not involved as much as possible."

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As part of the operation, six terrorists from the heads of the Islamic Jihad command were thwarted, the terrorist organization's weapons production capabilities were destroyed, and many of its military targets were attacked. In the first wave of countermeasures, Khalil Bahitini, the commander of the northern region of the Gaza Strip, who was responsible for approving and carrying out all terrorist activities in the region, was killed. Together with him, Tarek Ezz Al-Din, who was in charge of the connection between the Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the terrorist branch in Judea and Samaria, and Jihad A'anem, the secretary of the Islamic Jihad's military council, were killed.