Security officials briefed ministers at today’s security cabinet meeting that all signs indicate that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing in the central Gaza Strip, was killed when he was targeted by an IDF strike earlier this week, Hebrew media report.
The Ynet news site quotes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailing the news as “a great achievement for Israel.”
The IDF on Monday confirmed that it had targetted Issa in a strike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat, but said it did not have enough information that would confirm whether the hit was successful.
Issa is considered the number three in the terror organization in Gaza and serves as the deputy of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Together with Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, they are believed to have masterminded the group’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel that triggered the war.
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