The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a Gazan terror group allied with Hamas, says one of its local leaders has been killed by what it describes as an Israeli undercover force near Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
The group says Waseem Abdel-Hadi, a commander of its armed wing, was killed in what it calls a “cowardly and treacherous assassination operation.”
The PRC, whose members joined the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel at a later stage, says Abdel-Hadi played a role in developing its armed wing. It does not issue any direct threat of retaliation.
There is no immediate Israeli comment on the alleged killing.
The PRC is considered the third-largest terror organization operating in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In recent years, the group has operated under Hamas’s directives.
In May, it similarly said a prominent member was killed in an Israeli commando raid.
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