IDF says it killed Hamas finance chief, aide to former military wing deputy chief Issa

The chief of Hamas’s finances and an aide to former deputy military wing chief Marwan Issa was killed in an airstrike in central Gaza this week, the IDF announces.

Ibrahim Abu-Shamala was struck on Tuesday.

The IDF says “Abu-Shamala served as the financial chief of the military wing of the Hamas terror organization” and was an aide to Issa until he was killed in a strike in March 2024.

“As part of his role, he planned and oversaw the military wing’s budget during the war and implemented it by transferring and smuggling terrorist funding worth millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip for the military wing,” the IDF says.

“With these funds, Abu Shumala contributed to Hamas’s rearming and enabled the distribution of salaries to the Hamas organization’s terrorists, providing meaningful support for Hamas’s ongoing terrorist activity throughout the war,” it adds.