Senior Hamas commander dies after Israeli assault on Gaza

Jakarta –

Army Israel stated the commander-in-chief Hamas, Rafa Salama, was killed. Salama died in Israel’s newest assault on the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Reported by AFP, on Monday (15/7/2024), an Israeli navy assertion stated that the Israeli air power “attacked and killed the commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Brigade, Rafa Salama”, in an assault final Saturday (13 /7) within the Southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli navy stated it additionally focused Mohammed Deif, the navy commander of a Palestinian militia group.

A Hamas official stated on Sunday that Deif was nonetheless alive and monitoring the operation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu additionally admitted that there was “no certainty” that Deif had been killed.

Based on the Ministry of Well being in Gaza managed by Hamas, 92 individuals have been killed and greater than 300 wounded within the assault on the Al-Mawasi camp, the place tens of 1000’s of Palestinian refugees took shelter.

The Israeli navy stated its strikes on Saturday focused Deif and Salama in an “open space” that was “not a tent base, however an operational base.”

In its assertion, the Israeli navy named Salama as one in all Deif’s “closest associates” and “one of many masterminds of the October 7 bloodbath” in southern Israel.

They stated Salama joined Hamas within the early Nineteen Nineties, turning into a battalion commander “and taking part in a key position” within the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006. Shalit was launched there in 2011 in alternate for greater than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

Based on the navy IsraelSalama turned the pinnacle of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Brigades in 2016 and was accountable for sending rockets into Israel and “two tunnel assaults”.

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