Hamas confirms that senior official Ismail Barhoum was killed in an Israeli strike earlier today.
In a statement, the group says Barhoum, a member of the terror group’s political bureau, was killed in an Israeli strike in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis while undergoing treatment there.
Earlier Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the IDF “successfully eliminated” Barhoum, who he says was “the new Hamas prime minister in Gaza, who replaced Issam Da’alis, the previous prime minister who was eliminated a few days ago.”
Out of the 20 members of Hamas’s political bureau elected in 2021, 11 have been assassinated during the war in Gaza, and seven are either certainly or highly likely to be outside the Gaza Strip.
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