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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Marwan Issa

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar wave during a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist terror movement, in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
September 4, 2024, 5:10 am
US announces charges against Sinwar, 5 more Hamas chiefs day after Goldberg-Polin burial
Impact of criminal case may be mostly symbolic since terror chief on run and Haniyeh, Deif and Issa dead, but naming Mashaal suggests US may plan to pressure Qatar to hand him over
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
These images released by the IDF on March 26, 2024, show Marwan Issa (left) the deputy commander of Hamas's military wing, and Ghazi Abu Tama'a, another senior commander in the terror group, killed in an Israeli strike on March 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 26, 2024, 10:27 pm
IDF confirms Marwan Issa, Hamas’s No. 3, was killed in central Gaza strike
Military spokesman says another top terror commander, Ghazi Abu Tama’a, also killed in bombing of tunnel in Nuseirat on March 10
By Emanuel Fabian
Left: Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified. Right: An IDF strike early March 10 on a tunnel where Issa was believed to be hiding. (Social media; Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2024, 8:42 pm
Report: Assassination of top Hamas commander likely aided by US eavesdropping
NBC cites unnamed officials saying Israel reached Marwan Issa, found damning info on UNRWA employees, using intel from hardware captured in Gaza, aided by US wiretaps
By ToI Staff
Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified.
March 19, 2024, 5:41 am
White House confirms Israel killed Hamas No. 3 in strike last week
Jake Sullivan becomes first official in any government to definitively say Marwan Issa is dead, adds other top Hamas leaders ‘are in hiding… and justice will come for them too’
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to the press from an army base in central Israel, March 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 17, 2024, 11:27 pm
IDF chief says Hamas trying to hide fate of No. 3, as Gallant hints at Issa’s death
Halevi says military gearing up for Rafah offensive, and that commanders who act out of line must be disciplined, in apparent reference to generals Goldfus and Hiram
By Emanuel Fabian
Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified.
March 16, 2024, 12:01 am
Reports: Ministers told signs point to successful hit on Hamas number 3 Marwan Issa
Security cabinet informed evidence piling up that top commander is dead after Gaza strike, though terror group has yet to comment
By ToI Staff
Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified.
March 12, 2024, 1:27 am
Marwan Issa: Shadowy Hamas ‘chief of staff’ who was a key mastermind of Oct. 7 attack
Terror group’s No.3, targeted by Israel in Sunday air strike, turned Qassam Brigades into organized force; first arrested in 1987, he has survived several assassination attempts
By Shira Silkoff
Left: Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified. Right: An IDF strike early March 10 on a tunnel where Issa was believed to be hiding. (Social media; Israel Defense Forces)
March 11, 2024, 10:09 pm
IDF airs footage of strike on Hamas’s No. 3, but says still unclear if he was killed
Military spokesman confirms fighter jets struck tunnel where Marwan Issa and other terror commanders were hiding early Sunday; says no hostages held in the area
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a video statement on March 11, 2024 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 11, 2024, 7:05 pm
Netanyahu says Israel coming for Hamas leaders amid speculation senior terrorist killed
PM threatens: ‘We already eliminated number four in Hamas. Three, two, and one are on the way,’ as Israel and Hamas both look into fate of Marwan Issa, said targeted in Gaza strike
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, circled in a photo circulated on social media in 2015. The photo or its source could not be immediately verified.
March 11, 2024, 3:11 pm
Israel, Hamas both said probing fate of terror group’s No. 3, targeted in airstrike
Marwan Issa was reportedly hiding in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza; IDF pressing raid in Khan Younis’s Hamad Town; US officials say Rafah op not on horizon
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a tree planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, in the Jordan Valley, February 10, 2020. (Flash90)
February 18, 2020, 4:51 pm
PM warns Hamas of ‘big surprise’ amid reports Israel planned to kill its leaders
Report claims Egypt persuaded Israel to hold off on assassinating Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and head of military wing Marwan Issa
By ToI Staff
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take part in a ceremony on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City, in memory of one of their leaders, Mohamed Zaouari, who was killed in Tunisia. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
January 21, 2019, 2:06 pm
Hamas claims to foil Israeli attempt to spy on one of its Gaza leaders
Report says Palestinian operatives arrested a ‘collaborator’ who planted spyware near the home of Qassam Brigades deputy chief
By Adam Rasgon
The leader of the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, waves as he arrives for a meeting with the Palestinian Authority's prime minister and other officials in Gaza City on October 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
December 1, 2017, 11:16 pm
Hamas leader said to arrive in Cairo for talks on prisoner swap with Israel
Yahya Sinwar reportedly accompanied by Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of the terror group’s military wing
By ToI Staff
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, at a rally to mark Land Day near the Israeli border with east Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, March 30, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
July 10, 2017, 10:12 am
Hamas team reportedly in Cairo for prisoner swap talks
Palestinian source says discussions have come a long way; delegation arrives a week after Israelis said to have visited
By ToI Staff
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone-laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2012. AP/Mohammed Salem.
June 7, 2017, 10:08 pm
Will the Saudi-Qatar clash push Hamas into a dangerous corner?
As Gaza’s economy sinks, its ruling terror group is at odds with much of the Sunni Arab world — and running out of options
By Avi Issacharoff
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