The al Qaeda-linked Mujahideen Shura Council In The Environs Of Jerusalem (MSC) is one of the fastest growing and most active jihadist groups in Gaza and the Sinai.
Via LWJ:
On Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip in response to recent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula. According to a statement on the IDF website, the IAF targeted a “Global Jihad-affiliated terrorist.”
The terrorist, Hithem Ziad Ibrahim Masshal, was said to have “acted in different Jihad Salafi terror organizations and over the past few years has been a key terror figure, specializing in weapons and working with all of the terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.” Reuters reported that Masshal “was believed to be a member of Hamas’s national security force, but relatives said he also belonged to a militant Jihadist Salafi organization.” Palestinian media reports suggestedthat Masshal had worked as a “security officer at Shifa hospital in Gaza.”
According to the IDF, Masshal, who “manufactured, improved and traded different types of ammunition,” was involved in the April 17 rocket attack on Eilat from the Sinai, which the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) took responsibility for.
Following the Eilat attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that Israel would “exact a price for this [the attack]; this has been our consistent policy for the past four years and it will serve us here as well.” Egypt was reportedly briefed ahead of today’s strike