The Israel Defense Forces confirm the successful assassination of Izzadin El Haddad…
El Haddad, the absolute chief of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, died during a precision airstrike…
Intelligence officials describe the commander a top plotter of the October 7 massacre…
The elimination comes during ongoing cross-border fire along the northern boundary…
Two Israeli soldiers were confirmed killed in combat operations inside southern Lebanon earlier today…
The circle is closing on the leadership structure that launched the current crisis…
Sources in terror group also confirm death of Haddad, known as ‘the Ghost’ and long sought by Israel; was one of last surviving architects of Oct. 7 onslaught and had in the past ‘surrounded himself with hostages’
seen in a video released by Hamas’s military wing in May 2022 (social media)
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday confirmed killing Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the terror group’s leader in Gaza, in a “precise strike” on Gaza City in the Strip’s north the previous day.In a statement Saturday, the military said Haddad had recently “acted to rebuild the capabilities of the terrorist organization’s military wing and to plan numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops,” despite a US-brokered ceasefire agreement in October.
A senior Hamas official and a member of the group’s armed wing were also cited by AFP and Reuters confirming Haddad’s death. Haddad was killed along with his wife and a daughter, according to another Hamas source.
AFP photographs showed mourners carrying the body of Haddad, wrapped in a Hamas flag, on a stretcher from the ruins of a building.