WSJ: IDF targeted meeting of Hamas's highest-ranking operatives in strike that killed Muhammad Sinwar

Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar was killed in a May 13 IDF airstrike targeting a meeting of the terror group’s highest-ranking operatives, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Among the other top operatives killed was Mohammad Shabana, the commander of the group’s Rafah brigade, WSJ says.

The Hamas leaders had been gathering in a tunnel beneath the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis to discuss their approach to ceasefire talks with Israel when they were hit, WSJ reports.

The meeting went against Hamas’s wartime security protocols, creating an opening for Israel to target a group of high-level operatives at once, WSJ says.

The IDF has yet to confirm that Sinwar was killed in the strike.