Report: Hamas leaders didn’t communicate between themselves for 72 hours after Issa strike

As Israeli officials are said to increasingly believe that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in a strike last week, The Guardian reports that all communications between senior leaders in the terror group went silent for over 72 hours after the strike.

The British newspaper says radio silence has been introduced on a number of occasions after Hamas leaders were killed in the past.

The report notes that the Hamas leaders rely on encrypted apps and couriers to communicate between themselves.

In addition, the report highlights that if Israel knew Issa’s location, it implies that it is getting intelligence from someone high up in the terror group.

Issa 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.

Gazan sources told a Saudi newspaper today that Issa was “hit but his fate is unclear.”