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Security sources cautiously optimistic about outcome of strike on senior Hamas operative
Unnamed security sources express cautious optimism about the outcome of a strike in the Gaza Strip targeting a senior Hamas terrorist earlier this evening.
Hebrew media outlets reported that the target of the strike was the longtime spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, known by his nom de guerre Abu Obeida.
Abu Obeida, whose real name is Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, always appears masked in statements to the media and is something of a symbol in the Strip.
“There is optimism, we have cautiously assessed that the direction is positive,” one security source tells Channel 12.
Another tells the Kan public broadcaster that the outcome of the strike is “looking good.”
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