The Israeli army announced today that they had killed the senior official of the Palestinian radical movement “Hamas” Izzedin Kassab. The Jewish State Defense Forces (IDF) said he was one of the group’s last remaining senior leaders and was responsible for coordinating activities with other groups, Reuters reported. He was killed in an airstrike in the city of Khan Yunis.
“Hamas” in a statement confirmed the death of its high-ranking representative, specifying that he was killed together with another member of the movement – Ayman Ayesh. The two were in a car in the enclave when the Israeli strike hit them.
Ayesh led a regional branch of Hamas but, unlike Kassab, he was not a member of the movement’s political bureau, which makes group decisions, Reuters explained.
At the same time, Israeli authorities arrested several people on suspicion of disseminating classified information from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, DPA said, citing Israeli media reports today.
This was revealed after an investigating judge partially lifted a media blackout that had been placed on the case. He announced that the leak could reveal Israeli military targets in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s office denied media claims that the workers were among those arrested, BTA wrote.
The Prime Minister said that the black information must be raised immediately. “It only serves to maliciously and deliberately damage the Prime Minister’s office,” the government’s press office said in a statement.
Israel’s Shin Bet counter-intelligence service, the army and the police are involved in the investigation.
2024-11-01 20:33:00
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