The IDF says it killed a Hamas sniper who moonlighted as a photojournalist for Al Jazeera in a strike in the central Gaza Strip this afternoon.
Ahmed Samir Muhammad Washah served in Hamas’s military wing as a sniper operative, according to the IDF. The military says he was killed alongside two other Hamas operatives in the strike in the Bureij area.
“Alongside his work as an Al Jazeera photojournalist in recent years, Washah was an operative in Hamas’s military wing. In recent months, he advanced sniper attack plans and additional terrorist activities against IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF says in a statement.
“Due to his recent military activity and the threat he posed to IDF troops operating in the area, he was eliminated in a precise aerial strike,” the military says.
The IDF says he worked alongside his brother, Mohamed Washah, a “key” Hamas operative who also worked for Al Jazeera. Mohamed Washah was killed in an Israeli strike in April.
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