Israel Strikes Gaza City, Kills Senior Hamas Military Commander and Six Others
Israeli forces conducted a precise strike Friday that killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, head of Hamas' military wing and a key architect of the October 7, 2023 attack. His family confirmed the death along with six others, including his wife and daughter. The strike comes as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire remains stalled over disputes about Hamas disarmament.
The HillIsrael conducted a precise strike in Gaza on Friday, killing Izz al-Din al-Haddad, a top strategist who helped plan and carry out Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The Israel Security Agency and Israel Defense Forces said in a joint statement that Haddad was one of the last senior commanders in Hamas' military wing who directed the planning and execution of the October 7 massacre and the management of combat operations against IDF troops.
He was killed in a precise strike in the area of Gaza City.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad was the head of Hamas' military wing. He took over Hamas’s armed forces last year after Israel killed the group’s military leader Mohammed Sinwar. One of the last surviving architects of the Oct.
7 attacks, he was involved in the holding of many Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity and surrounded himself with hostages to prevent his elimination. Haddad joined Hamas during its early establishment and maintained close ties with Hamas leadership. He recently operated to rehabilitate Hamas' military wing capabilities.
The strike represents the highest-ranking official Israel has targeted since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect last October. IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the operation marked an important closing of a circle.
In all the conversations I had with the abductees who returned, the name of the master murderer, Iz al-Din Haddad ... came up time and time again," Zamir stated.
Haddad's family confirmed his death to The Associated Press and said he was killed alongside six others, including his wife and daughter. The family held his funeral in Gaza City on Saturday. The Associated Press reported two Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Friday, one targeting a building and another a vehicle.
Seven people were killed and dozens more were wounded in the strikes on Friday in Gaza City, according to health officials in the Palestine Red Crescent Society's Saraya Field Hospital and Shifa hospital. Nearly 1,200 people were killed during Hamas’s initial attack on October 7, 2023. About 250 people were taken hostage during that assault.
Israel responded with retaliatory strikes killing over 72,000 people according to local health officials. At least 440 more Palestinians died from enforced malnutrition during the conflict. -brokered agreement.
Under the ceasefire agreement Hamas agreed to release the total remaining Israeli hostages while Israel committed to releasing Palestinian prisoners. Both sides vowed to cease hostilities against one another. Nickolay Mladenov said on Wednesday that the ceasefire was stalled, citing a dispute over Hamas’s disarmament.
Mladenov added that his office is addressing violations of the deal from both sides every day. "You cannot build a future with armed groups running the streets, hiding in tunnels and stockpiling weapons. You cannot deliver reconstruction with militias on every corner," he told reporters in Jerusalem.
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The same facts could be read as Israel unilaterally violating a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire by assassinating a Hamas leader in a civilian area, killing his family and six others, thereby jeopardizing hostage returns and reconstruction.
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