The Israeli army announced on Thursday that the military chief of the Palestinian Islamist terrorist movement Hamas, Mohammed Deif, was killed in a bombing by Israeli forces in July in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The announcement comes just a day after the death in Tehran of the political leader of the Palestinian movement, Ismail Haniyeh, in an attack that Iran and Hamas attributed to Israel.
«The IDF [Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel] “They announced that on July 13, 2024, IDF fighter jets bombed the Khan Younis area, and following an intelligence assessment, it can be confirmed that Mohammed Deif was eliminated in the attack,” a military statement said.
“Deif initiated, planned and carried out the massacre of October 7,” the army said, referring to the Hamas attack on southern Israel that left 1,197 dead, according to an AFP report based on official Israeli data.
The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said an attack on July 13 had killed more than 90 people, but the Islamist movement denied that its military chief was among the victims.
The alleged 900-kilogram bomb dropped by Israeli forces around the house where Deif was suspected of taking refuge with one of his subordinates left a huge crater.
As head of Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedin al-Qasam Brigades, Deif was one of Israel’s most wanted men for nearly three decades and had been on the US list of “international terrorists” since 2015.
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