IDF says it killed Hamas minister in Gaza who worked to expand arms, plunder aid
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF says it killed Hamas’s economy minister in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday.
According to the IDF, Abd al-Fattah al-Zari’i also served as an operative in Hamas’s manufacturing division.
The IDF says the manufacturing division works to “increase Hamas’s weapons capabilities, including by exchanging information with other terror organizations across the Middle East.”
Al-Zari’i, according to the IDF, played a “significant role in directing Hamas’s efforts to seize control of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip” as well as managing Hamas-controlled markets.
Additionally, he was responsible for the distribution of fuel, gas, and funds for “terror activities,” the military adds.
Palestinian media reported that killed al-Zari’i took place in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, and his mother was also killed in the attack.
مكتب العمل الحكومي في غزة: ننعى الشهيد المهندس عبد الفتاح الزريعي وكيل وزارة الاقتصاد الوطني في قطاع غزة الذي ارتقى إلى العلا بعد استهدافه من طائرات الاحتلال بشكل مباشر، حيث استشهد هو ووالدته الكريمة وفي هذا المقام فإننا نزف قائداً حُكومياً، حيث عمل عملاً متواصلاً، وله مسيرة… pic.twitter.com/fMdDFNGM8m
— فلسطين بوست (@PalpostN) August 4, 2024
