From the Liveblog of
Thursday, December 7, 2023
IDF says it killed pair of senior Hamas intel official in airstrike this week
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF says that a few days ago it killed two senior officials in Hamas’s intelligence division, in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
It says one of the officials, Abed al-Aziz Rantisi, was responsible for Hamas’s observation capabilities, and was involved in the planning of the October 7 attacks.
He was killed in a strike on a Hamas intelligence command room, along with Ahmed Ayush, who the IDF says is a senior operative in the terror group’s observation array in the al-Qarara battalion.
The IDF says the command room that was hit in the strike was a center for all of Hamas’s observation capabilities, and it “served as a significant strategic asset for the management of the fighting.”
