Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi assesses that Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif is dead, although he concedes that, at this point, it’s still “a matter of guessing.
A digger removes the cement and debris on August 20, 2014 of the Deif home, destroyed the night before in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)
“My assessment is that he isn’t alive, because I don’t see any indication that he emerged from the debris [of his bombed house] alive,” he tells Israel Radio.
Still, Hanegbi concedes, past experience shows that Deif, who survived multiple assassination attempts by Israel despite being injured very badly, “has many lives.”
The airstrike on Deif’s house overnight Wednesday killed Deif’s wife along with his infant son and three-year-old daughter.
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