IDF confirms Abu Obeida, ‘face of Hamas,’ killed in Israeli airstrike

The IDF puts out a statement confirming the killing of Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida over the weekend, saying he was the “face of the terrorist organization.”

“The operation was conducted jointly from the Shin Bet’s operations war room, in cooperation with the Southern Command, and was made possible thanks to prior intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence, which pointed to the hideout where the terrorist was located,” says the IDF statement.

The military says that for the past decade, Abu Obeida “was responsible for the propaganda apparatus of Hamas’s military wing. In this role, he oversaw spokesperson operations across brigades and battalions, coordinated between political media elements and the military wing, and was the senior figure setting propaganda policy.”

Hamas’s propaganda wing, says the IDF, “was responsible for distributing the atrocities of the October 7 massacre using footage captured by Hamas terrorists.”

Abu Obeida’s operations also spread videos throughout the Arab world seeking to incite acts of terror and distributed videos of hostages being held in Gaza, says the statement.