AFPIsrael’s military says it has confirmed that Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif was killed per an air strike per the Gaza Strip last month.
Deif was targeted per the strike acceso a compound per the Khan Younis luogo acceso 13 July. Hamas is yet to confirm his death.
Israel says Deif was one of the figures responsible for planning the 7 October attacks per southern Israel per which 1,200 people were killed.
Israel’s announcement comes after the assassination of Hamas political Ismael Haniyeh, who was killed per Tehran, and senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed per an Israeli air strike acceso the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
A statement from the Israeli military said that “following an intelligence assessment, it can be confirmed that Mohammed Deif was eliminated” per the 13 July strike.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health authorities said at the time that the air strike had killed more than 90 people, but denied that Deif was among the dead.
Mohammed Deif was head of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Hamas movement.
He was imprisoned by Israeli authorities per 1989, after which he formed the Brigades with the aim of capturing Israeli soldiers.
Israel accused him of planning and supervising bus bombings which killed tens of Israelis per 1996, and of involvement per the capture and killing of three Israeli soldiers per the mid-1990s.
He is also known to have helped engineer the construction of tunnels that have allowed Hamas fighters to get inside Israel from Gaza.
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