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Top Hamas commander Raad Saad confirmed killed in Gaza City strike, Israeli official says

By Emanuel Fabian 13 December 2025, 4:38 pm
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Top Hamas commander Raed Saad (center) is seen alongside Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh (left) and other members of the terror group in an undated photo. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Top Hamas commander Raed Saad (center) is seen alongside Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh (left) and other members of the terror group in an undated photo. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Top Hamas commander Raad Saad is confirmed to have been killed in an airstrike in Gaza City this afternoon, an Israeli official says.

Saad was targeted while driving along the Rashid coastal road. He was killed alongside three others. The strike marks an apparent Israeli violation of the ceasefire.

Saad served as chief of Hamas’s weapons manufacturing headquarters and is considered only second to the terror group’s latest military chief, Izz al-Din Haddad.

According to Axios’s Barak Ravid, Israel did not inform the US in advance of the strike.

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