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Hamas’s Jabaliya police chief killed in northern Gaza airstrike — IDF, Shin Bet

By Emanuel Fabian 12 April 2024, 9:52 am 1 Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The IDF and Shin Bet say the head of Hamas’s internal security in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya was killed in an airstrike yesterday.

In addition to serving as a Hamas police chief in Jabaliya, Radwan Muhammad Abdullah Radwan, according to the IDF and Shin Bet, was an operative in the military wing of the terror group.

“Radwan gave orders to Hamas operatives and was responsible for directing armed terrorists to take control of humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip,” the IDF says in a statement.

It adds that his killing “degrades Hamas’s capabilities to attack and take control of humanitarian aid” in the Jabaliya area.

Another strike yesterday killed Hamed Muhammad Ali Ahmed, a commander in the Hamas military wing who was also responsible for internal security in Jabaliya, and another operative in the terror group’s Jabaliya Battalion, the IDF adds.

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