The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group announced on Sunday that it had accepted an invitation from the Russian Foreign Ministry for its chief, Ziad al-Nakhaleh, to visit Moscow.

The terror group did not specify when Nakhaleh would travel to the Moscow or whether he would meet with Russian officials, saying only it was “carrying out the necessary measures for the visit.”

The announcement comes on the heels of a meeting that is slated to take place on Monday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

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Since December 2019, Haniyeh has made several trips abroad, visiting Turkey, Qatar, Iran, and Oman.

Islamic Jihad’s announcement also comes a week after it engaged inthe most significant escalation in tensions with Israel in and around Gaza since November 2019 — when the Jewish state eliminated Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior commander in the terror group, in a targeted killing.

The fighting last week was touched off last Sunday morning when Israel killed a member of Islamic Jihad, who the IDF said was placing a bomb along the border fence between the Jewish state and Gaza, and then sent a bulldozer into the coastal enclave to retrieve his body, in an operation caught on film that angered many in the territory.

The recovery of the body appeared to be a part of Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s announced plan to “hoard” the corpses of Palestinian terrorists in order to use them as “bargaining chips” in negotiations