The Shin Bet announces that the organization, in a joint operation with the army, killed a leading Hamas military wing operative on Friday. Ismail Akluk, 25, was assassinated while riding in a car in Gaza.
Akluk was deeply involved in weapons manufacture for Hamas, the Shin Bet says, including “a very large contribution” to Hamas’s fledgling offensive drone project and its rocket development wing.
The targeted killing, the internal security organization says, harms Hamas’s ability to develop more advanced weapons, “with an emphasis on the UAV project, which is considered a flagship project toward which a large amount of resources are devoted.”
Twice during the course of Operation Protective Edge Hamas has launched relatively primitive, Iranian-made drones toward Israel; both were shot down by Patriot missiles.
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