The IDF confirms in a statement that it targeted a “key” Hamas member in Gaza City a short while ago.
According to Israeli officials, the target was top Hamas commander Raad Saad.
The military says that in recent months, the target of the strike “had been involved in efforts to restore and manufacture the group’s weapons.”
Further details will be provided later, the IDF adds.
The strike on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line killed at least three, according to Palestinian media.
Saad is considered to be among the few remaining members of Hamas’s top military brass in the Gaza Strip.
He previously served as chief of the terror group’s operations division.
Saad was believed by Israel to be at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital when the military raided the medical center in March 2024, although he apparently managed to flee at the time.
He has survived several Israeli assassination attempts during the war, including in June 2024.
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