Gaza:
Hamas’s armed wing al-Kasam Brigade has announced that his military chief, Mohammad Def, was killed by the Israeli army in Gaza Patti.
In a statement on Thursday, Brigade spokesman Abu OBida also confirmed that the employees of the Deputy Chief of Marwan Isa, Al-Kasam were killed, the Xinhua news agency.
“The enemy has killed two of our great leaders, but their legacy and resistance will continue,” OBida said.
He said that the murder of Hamas military leaders would not stop Palestinian resistance against Israel.
No additional details were provided.
On August 1, 2024, the Israeli army claimed that it killed Def in an airstrike at Khan Unis in Southern Gaza.
Israel has accused Daf of being one of the masterminds of Hamas attack on Southern Israeli cities on October 7, 2023.
Israel’s army said it had killed Def in July last year, but Hamas had not confirmed it yet.
Israel has said that DIF was one of the data responsible for planning an October 7 attacks in Southern Israel with 1,200 people killed and 251 were taken hostage.
Def was widely seen as a Hamas officer living second in Gaza, who was behind the group leader Yahya Sinavar in the region, who was also killed by the Israeli forces last year.
In May 2024, the International Criminal Court said that it was demanding arrest warrant for DIF and other senior Hamas data, saying that she had “proper grounds”, to assume that she had a 7 October attacks Responsibilities bore, in which about 1,200 Israelis were killed.
Def knew that he had helped the engineer in the construction of tunnels, who allowed Hamas fighters to enter Israel from Gaza. He was also credited with designing Hamas’s signature weapon, swear rocket.
In March last year, the US announced the death of Al-Casam Deputy Chief of Staff, Marwan Issa.
Issa was the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing and was considered one of the most wanted men in Israel.
The European Union, who placed the Hamas leader on his terrorist blacklist, directly connected him to the 7 October attack.
The latest war began when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, 15-month-old military aggressive of Israel killed more than 47,460 Palestinians in the region.
A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into force on 19 January.
Since then a total of 15 Israeli hostages have been freed.
So far, adolescents have been released from 400 Palestinian prisoners – from prolonged punishment and other attacks for bomb blasts.
Most occupied West Banks have returned to Eastern Jerusalem and Gaza, while about 70 most serious criminals have been deported.
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