A handout picture launched by the Israeli military on August 1, 2024 exhibits an undated portrait of Mohammed Deif, the top of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the army wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, at an undisclosed location. The Israeli army introduced on August 1, 2024 that Hamas army commander Mohammed Deif had been killed in a strike it carried out final month in Gaza’s southern space of Khan Yunis. (Photograph by Israeli Military / Agence France-Presse)
JERUSALEM, Undefined — The Israeli army on Thursday introduced that Hamas army chief Mohammed Deif had been killed in a strike it carried out final month in Gaza’s southern space of Khan Yunis.
The army’s affirmation it had killed Deif comes a day after the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which was introduced by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hamas.
“The IDF (Israeli military) broadcasts that on July thirteenth, 2024, IDF fighter jets struck within the space of Khan Yunis, and following an intelligence evaluation, it may be confirmed that Mohammed Deif was eradicated within the strike,” a army assertion mentioned.
“Deif initiated, deliberate, and executed the October seventh bloodbath,” the army mentioned of the Hamas assault on southern Israel that resulted within the dying of 1,197 individuals, in response to an Agence France-Presse tally based mostly on official Israeli figures.
Well being authorities in Hamas-run Gaza mentioned on the time of the July 13 strike that it killed greater than 90 individuals however Hamas denied Deif was amongst them.
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The suspected 2,000-pound bomb (900 kilograms) round the home the place Deif was mentioned to have taken refuge with one among his deputies had left a large crater.
The pinnacle of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, Deif had been amongst Israel’s most needed man for almost three many years and on a US checklist of “worldwide terrorists” since 2015.
The army mentioned Deif had over time carried out a number of assaults towards Israel.
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Deif operated together with Yahya Sinwar, the top of Hamas in Gaza, the army mentioned.
“Through the warfare, he commanded Hamas’s terrorist exercise within the Gaza Strip by issuing instructions and directions to senior members of Hamas’s army wing,” it added.
Through the Hamas assault militants additionally seized 251 individuals, 111 are nonetheless held captive in Gaza, together with 39 the army says are useless.
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Israel’s retaliatory army marketing campaign since then has killed 39,480 individuals, in response to the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which doesn’t present particulars of civilian and militant deaths.
